Autorentext

Marcia Clarke is an ordained minister and an adjunct faculty member at Vanguard University in California. She is an active member of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and currently serves as its president. Her work focuses on practical theology, Christian spirituality, and spiritual formation.

Klappentext

This book focuses on the Pentecostal experience of African-Caribbean women in Britain, paying attention to the influence of Pentecostalism as it is expressed in everyday life. Foregrounding the voices of Black British Pentecostal women, it presents the church not as a haven but as a context of empowerment. Pentecostal spirituality provided Caribbean women of the Windrush generation the spiritual and theological means to re-vision the British realities of racism, sexism, and ecclesial patriarchy. Their Pentecostal expression motivated the women to organise churches as spaces of quiet social activism displayed in the lives of successive generations as they navigate contemporary Britain. Utilising qualitative research located within the discipline of practical theology, the author considers the following questions: What is the nature of the experiential dimension of Pentecostalism in the lives of African-Caribbean women? What are the features of African-Caribbean spirituality? And how might the lived experience of African-Caribbean women contribute to an understanding of Pentecostal spirituality? The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology, history, and gender studies.

Inhalt

Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Black, Black British, Black Church: Defining and Clarifying 2. Black British Pentecostal Women: Migration History 3. The Women of the Spirit Project: An Empirical Study 4. Pentecostal Spirituality as Lived Experience: A Discussion 5. Black Women and Spirituality 6. The Strong Black Woman: Myth or Reality Index.