Spirit on the Move : Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora /

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The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pritchard, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann) (Editor), Casselberry, Judith, 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women, Black > Religious life.
Pentecostalism.
Pentecostal churches.
African diaspora.
RELIGION > Christianity > Pentecostal & Charismatic.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Églises pentecôtistes.
Femmes noires > Vie religieuse.
Mouvement charismatique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Voices of God : Blackness and gender in a Brazilian Black gospel music scene / John Burdick
  • Race, nation, and gender and the evangelical revival movement in Haiti : native sons of the soil and the Jezebel spirit / Elizabeth McAlister
  • Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal war in Mozambique / Linda van de Kamp
  • "Dressed as becometh holiness" : gender, race, and the body in a storefront Sanctified Church / Deidre Helen Crumbley
  • West African and Caribbean women evangelists : the Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors / Paula Aymer
  • "The kingdom in the midst" : African American Apostolic Pentecostal eschatological bodies in practice / Judith Casselberry
  • A critical approach to concepts of "power" and "agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches / Jane Soothill
  • Bless us with children : pregnancy, prosperity, and pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church / Laura Premack.

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