Spirit on the move : Black women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the diaspora /

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.

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Other Authors: Casselberry, Judith, 1952- (Editor), Pritchard, Elizabeth A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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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.