Feb. 25, 2008

ISSUE IX

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover) by Jane E. Soothill (Author) Jane E. Soothill, Ph.D. (2006), School of Oriental and African Studies, is a Research Associate at SOAS.

Charismatic Christianity is the most recent and fastest growing expression of Pentecostal religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana's capital, Accra, the charismatic churches dominate the religious scene. This book focuses on the gender discourses of Ghana's new churches, and considers charismatic perspectives on womanhood, manhood, marriage and family life. Offering a fresh perspective on the organisational structures of the charismatic churches, this study looks at the leadership roles of female pastors and pastors' wives, and draws attention to the links between female leaders and spiritual power. By highlighting the importance of spiritual power in interpreting gendered social change, the book sheds new light on the socio-cultural role of Ghana's new churches.

Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment (Hardcover) by Peter Hallward (Author)Peter Hallward is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University

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This paper investigates the view that charismatic Christians are apathetic to social justice. It argues that the absence of charismatics from the public political arena is a result of their dualistic, apocalyptic and pessimistic worldview, but that this absence does not constitute total socio-political apathy. ...(Read More)

Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (Hardcover) by Julie Roy Jeffrey (Author)

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Hardcover) by Cedric Johnson (Author)

Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery, the Thirteenth Amendment, And the Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback) by Pamela D. Bridgewater (Author)

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (Hardcover) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Author)

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Hardcover) by Melvyn Stokes (Author)

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Martha S. Jones

African American Feminisms 18281923 (History of Feminism) (Hardcover) by Zackodnik (Author)

International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (Hardcover) by Dennis Thiessen (Editor), Alison Cook-Sather (Editor)

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Laurie B. Green (Author)

American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Hardcover) by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (Author

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Hardcover) by James Sidbury (Author)

Love and Marriage in Early African America (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) (Paperback) by Frances Foster (Editor)

The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (New Black Studies Series) (Paperback) by Pero Dagbovie (Author)

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