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Listen "The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church"
Episode Synopsis
Damaris S. Parsitau, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture “The Kingdom of Holy Women: Pentecostalism, Sex and Women’s Bodies in an African Church,” which is based on five years of ethnographic research carried out at the Ministry of Repentance and Holiness, a new and controversial Pentecostal church based in Kenya.
Her book-in-progress explores the Ministry’s aims to control, discipline and objectify women’s bodies as sites of tensions and erotic desires that make women responsible for the sins of others and their supposed failure to enter the anticipated Kingdom of God.
Full transcript here: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/03/video-kingdom-holy-women-african-church
Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at hds.harvard.edu/.
Her book-in-progress explores the Ministry’s aims to control, discipline and objectify women’s bodies as sites of tensions and erotic desires that make women responsible for the sins of others and their supposed failure to enter the anticipated Kingdom of God.
Full transcript here: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/03/video-kingdom-holy-women-african-church
Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at hds.harvard.edu/.
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