This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities. In the last three decades, African Pentecostalism has emerged as one the most visible and profound aspects of religious change on the continent, and is a social force that straddles cultural, economic, and political spheres. Its conventional and selective literal interpretations of the Bible with respect to gender and sexualities are increasingly perceived as exhibiting a strong influence on many aspects of social and public institutions and their moral orientations. This collection features articles which examine sexualities and genders in African Pentecostalism using interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches grounded within traditional African thought systems, with the goal of enabling a broader understanding of Pentecostalism and sexualities in Africa.

Chapter 1: Introduction: African Pentecostalism, Genders, Sexualities and Spirituality.- Chapter 2: Problematising the use of the Bible in the human sexuality and Pentecostal spirituality debate.- Chapter 3: Moving forward in Reverse Gear? Sexuality, Dress and Public Spaces in Harare.- Chapter 4: Publicising the ‘Private’: New Pentecostal Movements in Zimbabwe and the Discourses on Sexuality.- Chapter 5: “A new man in Christ?”: Pentecostalism and the construction of masculinities.- Chapter 6: Interaction between Societal Constructions on Women Fertility and African Pentecostalism: A Seedbed for Gender-Based Violence in Swaziland.- Chapter 7. Zambian Pentecostalism, Gender Based Violence and Human Rights of Victims.- Chapter 8: ‘Clean the Nation Spiritually’: The Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) and National Sexual Moral Order in Zambia.- Chapter 9: Afro-Pentecostalism and Marital Challenges: A Kenyan Perspective.- Chapter 10: The Ideal Does Not Exist on Earth: Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in African Pentecostalism.- Chapter 11: Initiation Rites and Sex Education: A Ghanaian Pentecostal Perspective.- Chapter 12: An Appraisal of Pentecostal Children’s Understanding of Sex and Sexuality.- Chapter 13: “Need but Not Numbers”: Challenges Enshrined in Pentecostal Discourses of Singlehood in Zimbabwe: An African Womanist Perspective.- Chapter 14: Sexuality, Marriage and Singleness among Pentecostal Indian Women in South Africa.- Chapter 15:‘Virtual People’ and Matches Made in Heaven: The Pitch of Born-Again Dating Platforms and Pentecostal Attitude towards Online Dating.- Chapter 16: Continuity and Discontinuity of Haya Traditions on Charismatic Teaching on Human Sexuality in Tanzania.- Chapter 17: ‘Can a Queer be Born Again?’: The Experiences of the LGBTIQ+ Pentecostals at Grace Bible Church Soweto.- Chapter 18: Is Homosexuality the Eternal Sin? A Critique of Pentecostal Arguments against Same-Sex Relations in Africa.- Chapter 19. ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’: Homosexuality and Masculinity Politics among Pentecostal-Charismatics – A Case of the Mighty Men’s Conference (MMC).- Chapter 20: Congolese Pentecostalism, and Gender and Sexual Orientation .- Chapter 21: Performances of Sexualities: Exploring Discourses of Heteronormativity and Prejudice in Pentecostal Spaces.- Chapter 22: Infidelity among Afro-Pentecostal leadership: The Kenyan case.