ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how Pentecostal-Charismatic churches (PCCs) distinguish themselves in the competitive religious market of Kampala, drawing from cumulative fieldwork from 2010 to 2013 at Miracle and One Love. In a context of increased religious pluralism, material accumulation, aspiration, transformation and incorporation help clarify why people choose Pentecostalism as opposed to other forms in the free-market economy of faith'. Miracle Centre Cathedral is the self-ascribed largest PCC in East Central Africa. The use of scandal and sexuality serves as a critique of the side of the PC movement that has seemingly lost its way and foundational principles' while reinforcing the external frame of homosexuality in the Ugandan public sphere. Ugandan PCCs, such as One Love, have become inextricable from the public debate around sexuality, a subject that highlights divisions in the local movement. The chapter deals with broader conclusions on the use and meaning of sexuality and scandal as a tool for differentiation in the competitive religious market.
