Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa

Abstract

At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, for that matter who "liberate" themselves from the yoke of "conservative" gender ideologies articulated by Christian and Muslim communities in sub-Saharan Africa.This special issue seeks to make up for the biased representations of the interplay between constructions of gender identities and religious practices and understandings that have been generated by conventional research preoccupations, agendas, and concepts.Specifically, the contributions bring together three lines of exploration that Africanist research has tended to treat separately.These are firstly, the study of gender; secondly,

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