This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and soci

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinar

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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United