Listen now (56 mins) | “In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very..."
Just listened to this Elise. Wow. I looooved every minute of it. Because I’ve been feeling like this for, like, two years now, and hadn’t really been able to put conceptual form to it. I’ve long thought of myself as a “staunch progressive”, and lately I just thought I was becoming more conservative or something…identity crisis to be sure. But realized through this podcast that I was simply becoming more nuanced.
Thank you so much for having Africa on your show.
I have to say that funnily enough, the whole fundamentalist thing (I think Africa called it “sect”) was one of those moments for me that I saw how far I’ve come. I used to be super allergic to the Pentecostal evangelical Christianity that she mentions, because I, too, grew up around it. But it started changing for me when I started studying, as part of a masters in religious studies, the reasons, motivations and lives of women who adhere to fundamentalist Christian movements.
Just listened to this Elise. Wow. I looooved every minute of it. Because I’ve been feeling like this for, like, two years now, and hadn’t really been able to put conceptual form to it. I’ve long thought of myself as a “staunch progressive”, and lately I just thought I was becoming more conservative or something…identity crisis to be sure. But realized through this podcast that I was simply becoming more nuanced.
Thank you so much for having Africa on your show.
I have to say that funnily enough, the whole fundamentalist thing (I think Africa called it “sect”) was one of those moments for me that I saw how far I’ve come. I used to be super allergic to the Pentecostal evangelical Christianity that she mentions, because I, too, grew up around it. But it started changing for me when I started studying, as part of a masters in religious studies, the reasons, motivations and lives of women who adhere to fundamentalist Christian movements.
Many of these women have all my respect now. 💕🌸
Tell me about these women!