Sisters, Mothers, Daughters: Pentecostal Perspectives on Violence against Women (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 43)

Book info: Sisters, Mothers, Daughters: Pentecostal Perspectives on Violence against Women (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 43) (Paperback, 292 pages) – Brill, 2022. Language: English.

This volume explores issues and themes related to violence against women. It is distinctive in two ways. First, the editors have convened an international cohort of contributing scholars, whose assessment of the pervasiveness and urgency of the problems and their proposals for solutions derives from their pneumatology: their theology of the Holy Spirit. Second, this book represents quite simply the first sustained effort to bring together in one volume Pentecostal voices from a variety of academic disciplines, ecclesial traditions, and cultural situations to address the urgent issues associated with violence toward women. Editorial Reviews Review "Sisters, Mothers, Daughters: Pentecostal Perspectives on Violence Against Women offers an excellent, scholarly, nuanced, thoughtful and compassionate portrayal of the interweaving of religion and abuse within the global Pentecostal community. While the chapters are written by different authors, they are of a consistently high quality, offering interesting, informative, and useful ways to engage readers and the broader public with the suffering that so many women experience. This book is a must read for every pastor and every theological student." - Nancy Nason-Clark, Professor Emerita, University of New Brunswick, author of many books including Intimate Partner Violence and Religion, and Men Who Batter. About the Author Kimberly Ervin Alexander, PhD (2003) Ramp School of Ministry; Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester Wesley Research Centre. She is the author of numerous works on Pentecostal spirituality, including Pentecostal Healing: Models of Pentecostal Theology (Deo/Brill 2006), and on Pentecostal women’s experience. Melissa L. Archer, Ph.D., Bangor (Wales) University (2014), is Professor of Biblical Studies at Southeastern University. She published I Was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day: A Pentecostal Engagement with Worship in the Apocalypse (CPT Press, 2015) and has chapters in Spirit and Story: Pentecostal Readings of Scripture (2020) and Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming: The Spirit, The Bible, and Gender (Brill, 2021). Mark J. Cartledge is the Principal of London School of Theology and Professor of Practical Theology. He is a priest in the Church of England who has served in a variety of educational contexts on three continents. He has studied Pentecostalism for many years. Publications include Megachurches and Social Engagement (Brill, 2019). Michael D. Palmer, Ph.D., Marquette University, is Professor of Philosophy at Regent University. He co-edited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) as well as the two-volume work The Holy Spirit & Social Justice (Seymour Press, 2019).