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The Church of Mandela: Black Methodism and Queer Identity,the Church of Mandela. Yet, the MCSA’s visions of inclusivity, unity, and social justice clearly have its limits, especially when considering the persistent racialised divisions in the Church and the continued marginalisation of women and queer clergy and members. I also explore how despite these co

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The Church of Purity: Gender Binaries and Gendered Bodies,urch. Based on their experiences of policing, surveillance, and violence, I argue that the Church of Purity is based on the maintenance of a ‘pure’ gender-binary as well as ideas of African heterosexuality. Finally, by applying an indecent lens to the embodied experiences of clergy, I suggest, we un

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The Church of Ecclesia: Sex, Love, and Marriage,nd black masculinity and sexual prowess. I then go on to explore how promiscuities are enacted within the norms of the Church. Finally, I explore how celibacies seem to be imagined by the institution and how these frame the domestic and erotic lives of clergy. I argue that neither matrimonies, promi

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Introduction,y of debates around sexuality in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). In this chapter, I contextualise this institutional history in relation to narratives around African homophobia and South African liberalism concerning queer sexuality. This book is positioned as holding the tension bet

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The Church of Mandela: Black Methodism and Queer Identity,opposing apartheid. ‘The Church of Mandela’ not only indicates that Nelson Mandela was the MCSA’s most famous member, but that the denomination has taken on its associations with Mandela and other social justice advocates as an institutional identity. This is further bolstered by an influential chur

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The Church of Purity: Gender Binaries and Gendered Bodies,ice in the denomination. Malinga was the first woman in over 200 years of the Church’s existence and over 40 years of the ordination of women in the denomination to hold this position. Malinga’s appointment was celebrated institutionally as a sign of the MCSA’s progressive inclusivity. The MCSA was

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The Church of Ecclesia: Sex, Love, and Marriage, approved or not. The ‘Church of Ecclesia’ reflects the MCSA’s narrow delimitation of what it has termed ‘the same-sex debate’ around issues of same-sex marriage. While this was an important point for queer clergy, their experiences of kinship, partnership, and sexuality varied greatly and thus so d

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