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This path-breaking collection brings together thirteen leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences to address some of the most pressing issues in contemporary global Pentecostalism. Representing institutions from eight different nations on four continents, these scholars perceptively illuminate vital matters ranging from politics, cultural performance, and sexual identity to history, theology, and socioeconomics. The articles are grounded in primary research conducted in Africa, Australia, Europe, and South America and informed by cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives, making "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" a must-read for serious students of global Pentecostalism.

religion and sexuality --- African studies --- Queer studies --- Australasian studies --- Pentecostal studies --- religion and politics --- Latin American studies --- economic development --- theology --- Pentecostalism --- anthropology of religion --- sociology of religion --- performance studies --- religion and gender --- Charismatic movement

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Contemporary debates on “mansplaining” foreground the authority enjoyed by male speech, and highlight the way it projects listening as the responsibility of the dominated, and speech as the privilege of the dominant. What mansplaining denies systematically is the right of women to speak and be heard as much as men. This book excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining. These traditions present a paradigm of female speech that compels its male audience to reframe the configurations of “masculinity.” This tradition of authoritative female speech forms a continuum, even though there are many points of disjuncture as well as conjuncture between the Vedic, Upanishadic, puranic, and tantric figurations of the Goddess as an authoritative speaker. The book underlines the Goddess’s role as the spiritual mentor of her devotee, exemplified in the Devi Gitas, and re-situates the female gurus in Hinduism within the traditions that find in Devi’s speech ultimate spiritual authority. Moreover, it explores whether the figure of Devi as Womansplainer can encourage a more dialogic structure of gender relations in today’s world where female voices are still often undervalued.

Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Hinduism. --- Sociology. --- Asia—History. --- Religion and Gender. --- Gender Studies. --- History of South Asia. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Gender identity --- Religious aspects. --- Asia --- History.

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This book provides an account of Muslim women’s political and civic engagement in Britain and France. It examines their interaction with civil society and state institutions to provide an understanding of their development as political actors. The authors argue that Muslim women’s participation is expressed at the intersections of the groups and society to which they belong. In Britain and France, their political attitudes and behaviour are influenced by their national/ethnic origins, religion and specific features of British and French societies. Thus three main spheres of action are identified: the ethnic group, religious group and majority society. Unequal, gendered power relations characterise the interconnection(s) between these spheres of action. Muslim women are positioned within these complex relations and find obstacles and/or facilitators governing their capacity to act politically. The authors suggest that Muslim women’s interest in politics, knowledge of it and participation in both institutional and informal politics is higher than expected. This book will appeal to students and scholars of politics, sociology, gender studies and social anthropology, and will also be of use to policy makers and practitioners in the field of gender and ethno-religious/ethno-cultural policy.

Political science. --- Gender identity --- Political communication. --- Europe --- Political Science and International Relations. --- European Politics. --- Political Communication. --- Religion and Gender. --- Religious aspects. --- Politics and government. --- Women --- Women politicians. --- Women heads of state --- Political activity. --- Islamic countries. --- Women in politics --- Heads of state --- Politicians --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Political communication --- Political science --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.

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This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of motherhood studies, religious practice, pastoral care, and theology through engaging and accessible essays. Essays include both narrative and theological elements, as authors draw on personal reflection, interviews, and/or sociological studies to write about the theological implications of parenting practice, rethink key concepts in theology, and contribute to a more robust account of parenting as spiritual practice from various theological perspectives. The volume both challenges oppressive, religious images of self-sacrificing motherhood and considers the spiritual dimensions of mothering that contribute to women’s empowerment and well-being. It also deepens practical and systematic theologies to include concern for the embodied and everyday challenges and joys of motherhood as it is experienced and practiced in diverse contexts of privilege and marginalization. .

Feminist theology. --- Parenting --- Theology, Feminist --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religious aspects. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Religion and sociology. --- Theology. --- Feminist Theology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Religion and Society. --- Christian Theology. --- Christian theology --- Theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.

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This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.

Bangladesh --- Social life and customs. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Islam-Doctrines. --- Women. --- Ethnography. --- Religion and Gender. --- Islamic Theology. --- Women's Studies. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Femininity --- Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Islam—Doctrines.