TY - BOOK ID - 144908909 TI - Spirit Wives and Church Mothers : Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique. PY - 2023 SN - 0299343839 9780299343835 9780299343804 0299343804 PB - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women and religion KW - Pentecostal women KW - Women mediums KW - Women healers KW - Mozambique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144908909 AB - "Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Pentecostalism has shifted Christianity's global center of gravity from the West to the global South. In Spirit Wives and Church Mothers, Christy Schuetze explores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a striking increase in so-called traditional religious practices such as spirit mediumship and spiritual healing. She follows women -- who comprise the majority both of participants in Pentecostal churches and of initiates to new forms of mediumship -- through two emergent, rival healing networks"-- ER -