Professional women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic churches /
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...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
Series:
Studies of Religion in Africa
38.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004223103.
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Call Number: BX8762.Z7 H574 2010
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Warwick, 2006 under title: Women of valour : professional women in South African Pentecostal churches. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004193642 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9814 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |