1st Edition

Pentecostal Spirituality in Black Female Experience Endued with Power

By Marcia Clarke Copyright 2026
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on the Pentecostal experience of African-Caribbean women in Britain, paying attention to the influence of Pentecostalism as it is expressed in everyday life. Foregrounding the voices of Black British Pentecostal women, it presents the church not as a haven but as a context of empowerment. Pentecostal spirituality provided Caribbean women of the Windrush generation the spiritual... Read more

Foreword  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations  Introduction 1. Black, Black British, Black Church: Defining and Clarifying  2. Black British Pentecostal Women: Migration History  3. The Women of the Spirit Project: An Empirical Study  4. Pentecostal Spirituality as Lived Experience: A Discussion  5. Black Women and Spirituality  6. The Strong Black Woman: Myth or Reality  Index.

Biography

Marcia Clarke is an ordained minister and an adjunct faculty member at Vanguard University in California. She is an active member of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and currently serves as its president. Her work focuses on practical theology, Christian spirituality, and spiritual formation.