Spirit on the Move: Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora.

• Author: Nti, Kwaku

Casselberry, Judith, and Elizabeth A. Pritchard, eds. Spirit on the Move: Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Spirit on the Move moves the scholarly interest in Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian denomination in Africa, forward. The authors achieve this enormous feat with a focus on women in Africa and its diaspora. The focus on these two cardinal constituencies clearly situates this book conveniently at the crossroads of Pentecostal and Black feminist studies. The authors posit that this volume's mission is to correct the gaping disconnection between the numerical strength of Black women in the various manifestations of the Pentecostal denomination and the dearth of scholarship on "their experiences, theologies, and innovations in diverse contexts" (2).

To this end, this four-part book places Black women at the center of Pentecostal scholarship as it weaves a web of...