ISBN:
978-1-4780-0013-6
,
978-1-4780-0032-7
Language:
English
Pages:
238 Seiten
Series Statement:
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Keywords:
Afrika Afrikaner
;
Frau
;
Schwarze
;
Pentecost
;
Diaspora
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Saving Race -- 1 - Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene -- 2 - Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti -- Part II: Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body -- 3 - Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique -- 4 - "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church -- Part III: Sonic Power -- 5 - West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors -- 6 - "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times -- Part IV: Modeling the State -- 7 - A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches -- 8 - Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-220
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