Spirit on the Move

Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora

Judith Casselberry, Elizabeth A. Pritchard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0032-7 (ISBN)

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Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. 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 and access to power. Exploring a range of topics, from Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana that help women challenge gender norms to evangelical gospel musicians in Brazil, the contributors show how Pentecostalism helps black women draw attention to and seek remediation from the violence and injustices brought on by civil war, capitalist exploitation, racism, and the failures of the state. In fleshing out the experiences, theologies, and innovations of black women Pentecostals, the contributors show how Pentecostal belief and its various practices reflect the movement's complexity, reach, and adaptability to specific cultural and political formations.

Contributors. Paula Aymer, John Burdick, Judith Casselberry, Deidre Helen Crumbley, Elizabeth McAlister, Laura Premack, Elizabeth A. Pritchard, Jane Soothill, Linda van de Kamp

Judith Casselberry is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College and author of The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism, also published by Duke University Press. Elizabeth A. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College and author of Religion in Public: Locke's Political Theology.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Elizabeth A. Pritchard 1
Part I. Saving Race
1. Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene / John Burdick 27
2. Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister 44
Part II. Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body
3. Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique / Linda van de Kamp 67
4. "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church / Deidre Helen Crumbley 89
Part III. Sonic Power
5. West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors / Paula Aymer 109
6. "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times / Judith Casselberry 128
Part IV. Modeling the State
7. A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches / Jane Soothill 151
8. Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church / Laura Premack 180
References 197
Contributors 221
Index 225

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0032-5 / 1478000325
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0032-7 / 9781478000327
Zustand	Neuware