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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review“The editors and contributors of Spirit on the Move have successfully attended to this task without fear of troubling the waters of tidy conclusions in favor or against Black women’s relation to Pentecostalism. Scholars and Pentecostal practitioners can listen to and be taught by the global women portrayed in the pages of this book.”
-- Allison Kach * Sociology of Religion *
“Should be widely read by the African Studies community and particularly within the (re-emerging!) field of African Christianity.” -- Adam Mohr * African Studies Review *
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Spirit on the Move begins with a clear and provocative introduction in which Elizabeth A. Pritchard details the empirical evidence of Pentecostalism’s special appeal to Black women.... This volume [is] a most welcome single-volume contribution to Pentecostal studies, gender studies, and race studies.” -- Devaka Premawardhana * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *
“These essays provide a marvelous introductory text to the intersectional study of Black women and Global Pentecostalism.... [
Spirit on the Move] has included Pentecostalism’s appeal to Black women across the diaspora and countries on the continent of Africa.” -- Marcia Clarke * Pneuma *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
