Spirit on the Move

Judith Casselberry is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College and author of The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism, also published by Duke University Press.Elizabeth A. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College and author of Religion in Public: Locke's Political Theology.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction / Elizabeth A. Pritchard  1Part I. Saving Race1. Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene / John Burdick  272. Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister  44Part II. Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body3. Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique / Linda van de Kamp  674. "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church / Deidre Helen Crumbley  89Part III. Sonic Power5. West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors / Paula Aymer  1096. "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times / Judith Casselberry  128Part IV. Modeling the State7. A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches / Jane Soothill  1518. Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church / Laura Premack  180References  197Contributors  221Index  225

“The editors and contributors of Spirit on the Move have successfully attended to this task without fear of troubling the waters of tidy conclusions in favor or against Black women’s relation to Pentecostalism. Scholars and Pentecostal practitioners can listen to and be taught by the global women portrayed in the pages of this book.”- Allison Kach (Sociology of Religion) “Should be widely read by the African Studies community and particularly within the (re-emerging!) field of African Christianity.” - Adam Mohr (African Studies Review) “Spirit on the Move begins with a clear and provocative introduction in which Elizabeth A. Pritchard details the empirical evidence of Pentecostalism’s special appeal to Black women.... This volume [is] a most welcome single-volume contribution to Pentecostal studies, gender studies, and race studies.” - Devaka Premawardhana (H-Africa, H-Net Reviews) “These essays provide a marvelous introductory text to the intersectional study of Black women and Global Pentecostalism.... [Spirit on the Move] has included Pentecostalism’s appeal to Black women across the diaspora and countries on the continent of Africa.” - Marcia Clarke (Pneuma) "This volume comes with powerfully dramatic ideas that speak to a world where Black women’s lives often still matter little. Its authors’ insights justifying Pentecostalism’s inclusion alongside gender discrimination, colonialism, racism, classism, and state failure alone make this book worthy to be read. . . . By privileging the study of Pentecostal Black women’s narratives alongside historical global forces, this anthology contributes to Black feminist studies and women and gender studies, especially African/a and Diaspora Pentecostal women’s studies." - Itohan M. Idumwonyi (Horizons)