Monday 21 July 2008

Hamman: Tacking Stock

“most Pentecostal churches are easily formed and do not have to register at any central location or even keep track of their membership numbers.”1

refers to an “Enlightenment prejudice” in the understudy of Pentecostalism.2

Historical evangelicals influential due to support for education, human rights and health care, and willingness to work with progressive Catholics.3

Neo-Pentecostalism: prevalent in urban areas and among the middle and upper classes.4

theology of Pentecostals based on personal experience rather than doctrine.5

Refers to Chesnuts reference to the significance of faith healing in conversion to Pentecostalism.6

“In the Pentecostal churches, a place is provided for women to pool their meager resources, share child-care needs, support each other financially and emotionally during emergencies and, in many cases, raise their standard of living.”7

notes the limitations between comparing between Pentecostalism and lesser participatory forms of Catholicism.8

Pentecostalism as a women's movement: working together to resist Catholic religious hegemony and to oppose poverty and machismo.9



1AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 171.

2AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 172.

3AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 172.

4AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 173.

5AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 173.

6AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 174.

7AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 176.

8AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 179.

9AM Hallum, “Taking Stock and Building Bridges: Feminism, Women's Movements and Pentecostalism in Latin America” Latin American Research Review 38:1 (2003) 169186, 182.

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