Empowered to Submit: Pentecostal Women in Nairobi

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Deacon, Gregory
Parsitau, Damaris

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2017

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19

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Neo-Pentecostalism is characterized as offering freedoms and empowerment for women, a limited role in navigating patriarchy, or strengthening patriarchal control. In Nairobi, Kenya, neo-Pentecostalism is concerned with a morality built around an idealized model of the nuclear family in which a wife is subservient to her husband. It might appear that women’s ministries empower female members to challenge structures of control, but such challenges are resisted and women are expected only to survive within existing structures. Single-women are expected to live amongst the prejudices of society and dissuaded from any attempt to alter the societal structures that leave them marginalized.|African Christianity, Pentecostal, gender, women, single, patriarchy

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/109164

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