Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches

IVX, 298 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-16875-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Studies of Religion in Africa

This book gives a unique insight into the changing shape of contemporary religion examining the new role that Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity plays in the lives of young, professional, black women who are enjoying career success and becoming part of South Africa's new middle class. Amongst these women an interesting relationship has emerged between work and religion as they feel that the social networks and self confidence they gain from their religious communities are as important as their spiritual experiences. But not all the women who join these churches remain, and this book explores why some women leave the churches in which they had previously felt they gained so much.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frahm-Arp, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Frahm-Arp, did her Ph.D. (2006) in Sociology at the University of Warwick. She returned to SA to take up a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). She has published on women and religion in South Africa and has a particular interest in the connections between the world of work and religion. She currently lectures at St Augustine College in Johannesburg.