Spirit and Voice: Toward a Feminist Pentecostal Pneumatology

Pneuma ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Hollingsworth
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
World Today ◽  
Majority World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

AbstractThis article suggests that bringing feminist pneumatology and Pentecostal spirituality into dialogue may provide new opportunities link women's empowerment with the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Following a brief overview of feminist pneumatology and Pentecostal spirituality, it exposits Sarah Coakley's pneumatology, arguing that her insights lead us to inquire about the ways in which Charismatic piety might contribute to the empowerment of Pentecostal women in the majority world today. The article then highlights sociological research which shows that Latin American women's ecstatic experiences of the Spirit are frequently linked with an increased sense of personal subjectivity, and the ability to “give voice” in both public and private spheres. It concludes with a proposal for speaking of the Holy Spirit as the divine voice, suggesting that this may be one way to move toward a constructive feminist Pentecostal pneumatology.

Women's Empowerment in Latin American Cities and Its Influence on Mortality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ortigoza ◽  
Ariela Braverman ◽  
Philipp Hessel ◽  
Vanessa Di Cecco ◽  
Amélia Augusta Friche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
American Cities

scholarly journals KATEKIS DALAM PERUTUSAN GEREJA DI TENGAH TUNTUTAN PROFESIONAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Albert I Ketut Deni Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

A catechist can be called a missionary and saint. This call is very appropriate considering their role in the missionary work of the Church. This research will answer two questions: (1) What is the role of catechists in the missionary work of the Church? (2) What is the professional catechism model in the midst of the needs of the world today? This study uses a qualitative method of literature study. Through this paper, it will be explained that in the mission of the Church, the catechist acts as a spokesman for the Christian congregation, a prophet, an educator and a witness. Where as the professional catechists needed are catechists who always present the Holy Spirit as their soul and missionary spirit while equipping themselves with skills and knowledge.

scholarly journals Gender Empowerment in Agriculture Interventions: What Are We Still Missing? Evidence From a Randomized-Controlled Trial Among Coffee Producers in Honduras

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Rubio-Jovel
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Gender Empowerment

Latin-American coffee production has largely relegated women to specific family labor tasks, such as berry picking or cooking. But recent years have seen an increasing number of interventions to empower women in the agricultural sector, including coffee. As a contribution to the growing literature on women's empowerment in agriculture, this article draws on a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate a gender empowerment project among coffee producers in Honduras. Previous RCT evaluations of gender empowerment interventions have focused on average treatment effects and paid less attention to the diversity of responses in the sample. This article evaluates the effect of a project to empower women in Honduras' coffee sector but pays attention to how the intervention interacted with the amount of land owned by women to produce different outcomes. The intervention consisted of 12 workshops offered to families in 10 coffee-producing groups. The baseline and end-line surveys (2016–2018) included a sample of 88 families (41 intervention and 47 control, from 4 to 5 communities respectively). Results showed limited effects of the intervention on women's empowerment for the pooled sample, but it found heterogeneous positive effects for land-owning women. Women who owned land and received the treatment scored fewer points on a deprivation score, had input over more decisions related to the use of household income, and were more satisfied with their leisure time. For quantity of land owned, this article also found positive heterogeneous effects for the same variables, and additionally for confidence speaking in public. Results suggest that projects to empower women might benefit from a more nuanced approach to the heterogeneity within the target population.

Protestants and Pentecostals in Latin America (1900–Present)

2020 ◽  
pp. 410-440
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
The Catholic Church

The growth of evangelicalism in Latin America, largely of the Pentecostal type, is a recent phenomenon. After half a century of relative dormancy, Pentecostalism exploded during the last three decades of the twentieth century, reshaping the Latin American religious landscape that for nearly four centuries had been monopolized by the Catholic Church. This chapter explores the origins and growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America, first in its Protestant expression, then in its spread within the Catholic Church. Basic to both is the necessity of a conversion experience followed by a receptivity to the transformative work of the Holy Spirit. As a movement and religious phenomenon, the impact of Pentecostalism has been enormous. Particular attention is given to theoretical models proposed to explain Pentecostal conversions.

The Holy Spirit as Transforming Power Within a Society: Pneumatological Spirituality and Its Political/Social Relevance for Western Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
Matthias Wenk
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Black ◽  
Western European

AbstractBoth British and American Black Pentecostals as well as Latin American ones have begun to to develop a social ethic based on a pneumatological perspective. Their liberating and empowering experience of the Spirit has provided them with new categories and options to institute social change. By contrast, Western European Pentecostals have been predominantly silent in this regard. This article argues that a pneumatological spirituality has socio-political relevance also for Western European Pentecostals. Both the experience of the Spirit, as reflected in Luke—Acts and 1 Cor. 12-14, as well as the history of Pentecostalism, underline this thesis. However, in order to recover this social/political dimension of their Spirit-experience, Western European Pentecostals need to recover the community and social dimension of the kingdom of God over against a Western individualistic, internalized and spiritualized definition thereof.

scholarly journals The incorporation of women’s empowerment principles (WEPs) as criteria for granting the national social responsibility seal for prison work (RESCUE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e100101220249
Author(s):  
Ana Maria D'Ávila Lopes ◽  
Marynna Laís Quirino Pereira ◽  
Lucas Vieira Barjud Marques
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
New Criterion

Gender discrimination against women in the labor market remains a global scourge. This situation is even more aggravated in the case of women prisoners or ex-prisoners, who suffer not only from gender bias, but from their involvement with the criminal world. In this context, the present work aimed to propose the incorporation of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) proposed by the United Nations (UN), as a new criterion for the granting of the National Seal of Social Responsibility for Prison Work (RESCUE). The RESCUE, created in 2017 by the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), of the Brazilian State, has the purpose of recognizing the initiatives of public and private institutions that hire people deprived of their liberty or those released from the national prison system. For this purpose, bibliographic and documentary research was carried out on Brazilian doctrine and legislation, as well as on UN documents. It was concluded that there is a need and urgency for the Brazilian State to improve the mechanisms for the inclusion of women in the labor market, especially in the case of those prisoners or those who are discharged from the penitentiary system, being RESCUE an important initiative that can be significantly improved by including WEPs, as one of the criteria for its award.

Determinants of Microfinance Factors Affecting Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ali Irhoumah ◽  
◽  
Abdullah Ayedh
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Factors Affecting

There have been many proposals made and implemented worldwide by both the public and private sectors to alleviate the hardships of the poor women, and in the long term enhance their empowerment. Subsequently, this would allow women to play a significant social and economic role in modern societies. The current research has been motivated by the need to close the knowledge gap by assessing the determinants of microfinance, as well as the factors affecting women‘s empowerment in Egypt, in terms of increased savings and real income and choice, as well as participation in decision making, social relations, consumption and household welfare. This study applied quantitative tools and examined a random sample of 423 women participants with a microfinance agency in Egypt. Particularly, a survey was conducted on the key impact of institutional factors, cognitive effects and cultural factors on women's empowerment. Data were inspected and then analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM), to determine the statistical significance and differences. The findings showed that women using microfinance were able to raise their own standard of living as well as that of their families, thus indicating the positive impact of microfinance. This finding could be useful for policy makers and microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in Egypt

scholarly journals Ministérios eclesiais: perspectiva das conferências gerais do episcopado latino-americano e caribenho

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (313) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Eliseu Wisniewski ◽  
Antonio José de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Espirito Santo ◽  
The Church ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean ◽  
The Way

A Igreja desempenha sua missão de evangelizar através da acolhida da vocação ministerial suscitada pelo Espírito Santo. Esta acolhida se expressa em inúmeros serviços voltados para o atendimento de aspectos concretos da vida das comunidades eclesiais. Neste artigo, o Autor tendo presente o Documento Final das Conferências Gerais do Episcopado Latino-americano e Caribenho pretende entender como cada uma delas tratou o tema dos ministérios eclesiais, indicando o percurso feito e assinalando o que considera como conquistas, diferenças e avanços sobre um dos temas mais fundamentais e urgentes para a Igreja. Abstract: The church plays its role to evangelize through the welcome of the ministerial vocation raised by the Holy Spirit. This welcome is expressed in several activities for the care of specific aspects of life of the ecclesial communities. In this article, the author, referring to the Final Document of the General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops, intends to understand how each one treated the theme of ecclesial ministries, indicating the way and showing what he considers as achievements, differences and advances on one of the most fundamental and urgent role for the ChurchKeywords: Latin American Episcopate; General Conferences; Latin American Church; Ordained ministries; Non-ordained ministries.

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