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

Herausgeber: Casselberry, Judith

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Religious Cultures of African
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000327
• ISBN-10: 1478000325
• Artikelnr.: 52526210

Autorenporträt

Judith Casselberry and Elizabeth Pritchard, editors

Inhaltsangabe

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