Pentecostal Charismatic Women in South Africa : Constructions of Femininity in Alexandra Township.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mampane, Tumi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexandra (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions--21st century.

Alexandra (Johannesburg, South Africa).

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : BestRed, 2023.

Summary:

This autoethnographic study, grounded in Black/African feminist and womanist theory, provides deep insight into the daily lives of women in a South African Pentecostal community.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

copyright page

Table of Contents

List of figures

Acronyms and abbreviations

Note on translations

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Preface

Ch 1- Becoming Charismatic women

Pentecostal history: Identity re/formations

Black feminist theology

Womanism, Black feminism and African feminism

Entry points

Figure 1.1. Nkuli Silawuli, worship leader.

Ch 2- Contested Pentecostalisms: A review

Have you read the Comaroffs?

Upward mobility, breaking from the past and the prosperity gospel

Mediated Pentecostalism and shaping 'the world'

Gendered ideologies and identities

A problematic view

Conclusion

Ch 3- Between the feminised other and Black women's power

Beyond the feminised other

African gender discourses: Religion, culture and the law

Gender as performativity

Wilful whispers

Ch 4- This field I call home

Figure 4.1. Easter lunch set-up, 2019, hosted by Red Sea Ministries at Thusong Youth Centre.

Figure 4.2. 'At home' with my mother, singing at a special service.

Ch 5- Constructions of femininity

Get me to the church on time

When church is in session

Living Waters Ministries

Upper Hall Ministries

God's Love Ministries

Red Sea Ministries

The sermons

Pastor Mabaso's poem

The sound of wedding bells

Same bells, different ideologies

Women in the pulpit

Men in the pulpit

From the mouths of babes - Bomthandazo

Desire: Marriage, heterosexual love

Going 50/50: Definitions of equality and gender roles

Prayer scarves: Respectability and the female fear factory

We don't want to be judged

Pastor fuckboys and the art of dating

Femininity from their mothers to their churches

What's love got to do with it?

Ch 6- A question of difference

About the author

Photo gallery.

Figure P1. Bishop Silawuli and Pastor Thoko (my mother).

Figure P2. Pastor Patrick and his wife Mrs Sexoka, Nkuli in thebackground.

Figure P3. Nkuli leading worship at Thusong Youth Centre.

Figure P4. Phutaditjaba Community Centre and a young, unnamed beneficiary.

Figure P5. Ko Bareng (The Bar).

Figure P6. Ko Bareng patrons (left-right): Mahlangu, John Namane and John Masangu.

Figure P7. One of Alexandra's oldest homes.

Figure P8. Another 'old home' in Alexandra, protected by a wall.

Figure P9. 15th Avenue on Hofmeyr Street, Alexandra.

Figure P10. The Roosevelt Street entrance to Pan Africa, Alexandra.

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Mampane, Tumi Pentecostal Charismatic Women in South Africa

ISBN:

0-7969-2647-6

OCLC:

1407414645