Spirit Wives and Church Mothers : Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique / Christy Schuetze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuetze, Christy K., author.

Series:

Women in Africa and the diaspora.

Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostal women--Mozambique--Gorongosa District.

Pentecostal women.

Sociology.

Women and religion--Mozambique--Gorongosa District.

Women and religion.

Women healers--Mozambique--Gorongosa District.

Women healers.

Women mediums--Mozambique--Gorongosa District.

Women mediums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

Christy Schuetze, associate professor of anthropology at Swarthmore College, has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique for more than twenty years.

Summary:

"Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Pentecostalism has shifted Christianity's global center of gravity from the West to the global South. In Spirit Wives and Church Mothers, Christy Schuetze explores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a striking increase in so-called traditional religious practices such as spirit mediumship and spiritual healing. She follows women -- who comprise the majority both of participants in Pentecostal churches and of initiates to new forms of mediumship -- through two emergent, rival healing networks"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. "The world is upside down": the search for healing in a world out of balance

2. Healing and harming: ancestral tradition and spirits across generations

3. Economic exclusion: the search for cash on the margins

4. Precarious world: the hospital as complementary medicine

5. Wives and mothers: misfortune and women's vulnerability in marriage

6. Spirirt wives: managing spirits and husbands

7. Church mothers: Pentecostal churchwomen navigating marriage.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780299343835

0299343839

OCLC:

1381096271