Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches - Frahm-Arp, Maria
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This book gives a unique insight into the changing shape of contemporary religion examining the new role that Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity plays in the lives of young, professional, black women who are enjoying career success and becoming part of South Africa's new middle class. Amongst these women an interesting relationship has emerged between work and religion as they feel that the social networks and self confidence they gain from their religious communities are as important as their spiritual experiences. But not all the women who joined these churches remained, and this book…mehr

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This book gives a unique insight into the changing shape of contemporary religion examining the new role that Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity plays in the lives of young, professional, black women who are enjoying career success and becoming part of South Africa's new middle class. Amongst these women an interesting relationship has emerged between work and religion as they feel that the social networks and self confidence they gain from their religious communities are as important as their spiritual experiences. But not all the women who joined these churches remained, and this book explores why significant numbers of women left the churches where earlier they had felt they gained so much.
Autorenporträt
Maria Frahm-Arp, did her Ph.D. (2006) in Sociology at the University of Warwick. She returned to SA to take up a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). She has published on women and religion in South Africa and has a particular interest in the connections between the world of work and religion. She currently lectures at St Augustine College in Johannesburg.