Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies) (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 21)

✍ Scribed by Margaret English de Alminana, Margaret and Lois Olena

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry, co-edited by Margaret English de Alminana and Lois E. Olena, concerns women and Pentecostalism. It introduces the way the Pentecostal/charismatic movement has been shaped by and has shaped women from its beginning and offers a wide variety of responses to the opportunities and limitations women have experienced in their commitment to religious service. Scholars, activists, leaders, and exemplars from a variety of disciplines reflect on the question: How have women responded to a religious context that has depended upon their gifts while, at the same time, limited their voices and perspectives? This volume offers missing and/or silent voices an important corrective and a way forward to shape gender-focused discussions.Contributors are: Estrelda Yvonne Alexander, Peter Althouse, Linda M. Ambrose, Melissa L. Archer, Amy C. Artman, Denise A. Austin, Kate Bowler, Barbara Cavaness-Parks, Loralie Robinson Crabtree, Naomi Dowdy, Margaret English de Alminana, Beth (A. Elizabeth) Grant, Jacqueline Grey, Mimi R. Haddad, Jennifer A. Miskov, Stephanie L. Nance, Lois E. Olena, Ava Kate Oleson, Joy E. A. Qualls, and Zachary Michael Tackett.

✦ Table of Contents

Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Note on the Cover Illustration
Definitions
Introduction: The Purpose and Theoretical Framework of this Book
Part 1: Biblical and Historical Roots
Editor’s Note to Chapter 1
1 Women in Ministry: A Pentecostal Reading of New Testament Texts
Editor’s Note to Chapter 2
2 Examples of Women’s Leadership in the Old Testament and Church History
Editor’s Note to Chapter 3
3 Callings, Giftings, and Empowerment: Preaching Women and American Pentecostalism in Historical and Theological Perspective
Part 2: Historical Exemplars
Editor’s Note to Chapter 4
4 Florence Crawford and Egalitarian Precedents in Early Pentecostalism
Editor’s Note to Chapter 5
5 Giving Room to the Anointing: Carrie Judd Montgomery’s Influence on Women in Ministry
Editor’s Note to Chapter 6
6 Producing Change: Kathryn Kuhlman and Modern Media
Editor’s Note to Chapter 7
7 A Successful Calling: Women, Power, and the Rise of the American Prosperity Gospel
Part 3: Global Exemplars
Editor’s Note to Chapter 8
8 The ‘Outback Spirit’ of Pentecostal Women Pioneers in Australia
Editor’s Note to Chapter 9
9 Canadian Pentecostal Women in Ministry: The Case of Bernice Gerard and Feminist Ideologies
Editor’s Note to Chapter 10
10 The Holy Spirit and Hospitality: Pentecostal Empowerment for Building Relationships with the World’s 800 Million Muslim Women
Editor’s Note to Chapter 11
11 Merchandised Women: Priceless, Called and Empowered
Part 4: Distinctive Concerns of Female Leadership and Ministry
Editor’s Note to Chapter 12
12 Women as Assemblies of God Church Planters: Cultural Analysis and Strategy Formation
Editor’s Note to Chapter 13
13 When Liberation Becomes Survival
Editor’s Note to Chapter 14
14 Living a Theology of Co-Gender Ministry
Editor’s Note to Chapter 15
15 Women Praying for Women: Christian Healing Ministries and the Embodiment of Charismatic Prayer
Afterword
Editor’s Note to Appendix A
Appendix A: The Testimony of Naomi R. Dowdy
Editor’s Note to Appendix B
Appendix B: The Testimony of Theresa D’Souza Greenhough
Index