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Spirit Wives and Church Mothers

Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique
  • By Christy Schuetze
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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 andChurch 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.

Drawing on years of field research, Schuetze offers a richly drawn ethnographic analysis of these important religious transformations in the lives of female participants. Illustrating how economic and social context shapes the possibilities for--and forms of--women's empowerment, Spirit Wives andChurch Mothers intervenes in scholarly debates about the nature of agency and challenges universalist Western feminist assumptions about the form of women's liberation.

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    • SKU: 9780299343804
    • Manufacturer: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
    • ISBN 13: 9780299343804
    • Publication Date: 08/22/2023
    • Format: Hardcover
    • Author: Christy Schuetze

     
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