Pentecostal Spirituality in Black Female Experience

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.