Ndembu cultural liminality, terrains of gender contestation: Reconceptualising Zambian Pentecostalism as liminal spaces

Chammah J. Kaunda

doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.3718

Ndembu cultural liminality, terrains of gender contestation: Reconceptualising Zambian Pentecostalism as liminal spaces

Chammah J. Kaunda

United Graduate School of Theology

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Abstract

In this article, I demonstrate how Capital Christian Ministries International has been conceptualised as ecclesiastical spaces for de-gendering. I have utilised symbolic imagination within the Ndembu cultural liminality as theoretical framework in theological studies. I have argued that the initiates in the liminal spaces subverted social normative through the process of un-gendering. The article concludes by arguing that reclaim and reconstitute ecclesia spaces as liminal spaces have potential to promote gender emancipation within African Christianity.

Original language	English
Article number	3718
Journal	HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
Volume	73
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.3718
Publication status	Published - 2017 Jun 14

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2.The? research?grant?given?by?John?Templeton?Foundation,?through?the?Nagel?Institute?for?the?Study?of?World? Christianity?under?the? theme?‘Christianity?and?Social?Change?in?Contemporary?Africa’.

Funding Information:
This work was supported with a research grant by the Nagel Institute with generous support from the John Templeton Foundation.

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