Dr Adriaan van Klinken
Overview
Department of the Study of Religions
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Name:
- Dr Adriaan van Klinken
- Email address:
- a.van.klinken@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 337
Biography
My research focuses on dynamics of gender and sexuality in African Christianity, particularly on religious transformations in masculinity and on the controversy surrounding homosexuality in contemporary African Christian contexts.
My current research project is: ‘A Saint in Times of AIDS: Religion and Masculinity Politics in Postcolonial Zambia’. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Research
Contemporary African Christianity; African Theology; Religion and Gender; Religion and Masculinities; Queer Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Intercultural Theology.
Publications
Book Chapters
van Klinken, Adriaan (2012) 'The Politics of “Biblical Manhood”: A Critical Study on Masculinity Politics and Biblical Hermeneutics in a Zambian Pentecostal Church.' In: Gunda, Masiiwa Ragies and Kügler, Joachim, (eds.), The Bible and Politics in Africa. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, pp. 341-362. (Bible in Africa Studies)
Articles
van Klinken, Adriaan (2012) 'Men in the Remaking: Conversion Narratives and Born-Again Masculinity in Zambia.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 42 (3). pp. 215-239.
