Spirit wives and church mothers :: marriage, survival, and healing in central Mozambique /

"Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Pentecostalism has shifted Christianity's global center of gravity from the West to the global South. In Spirit Wive...

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1. Verfasser: Schuetze, Christy K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Women in Africa and the diaspora.
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Zusammenfassung:"Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Pentecostalism has shifted Christianity's global center of gravity from the West to the global South. In Spirit Wives and Church Mothers, Christy Schuetze explores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a striking increase in so-called traditional religious practices such as spirit mediumship and spiritual healing. She follows women -- who comprise the majority both of participants in Pentecostal churches and of initiates to new forms of mediumship -- through two emergent, rival healing networks"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780299343835
0299343839

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