By Frahm-Arp
This e-book deals an exploration into the interconnections among profession good fortune and religiosity because it examines the position of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity within the paintings reviews of younger, specialist, black girls who're turning into a part of the publish-
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These churches also offered women strong networks of peer support and encouragement. Yet I found that in the churches which I worked with, there was not so much a feminisation of religion but rather a masculinization of the gospel. The language, leadership, focus of the teaching and structure of the churches were masculine. The pastors presented themselves as successful patriarchal heads of families who did not need the props of the shebeen-street culture to prove their masculinity. Providing for the family, being a stable reliable father and not violating their marriage vows were key themes in these churches.
As these upwardly mobile people have grown in wealth they have moved out of the townships and previous rural, apartheid-created homelands into the cities and suburbs. This has led to significant social and economic changes in the landscape of metropolitan centres like greater Johannesburg (Mbembe and Nutall 2004: 356–61). Infrastructure and service delivery During the late 1980s and early 1990s housing was a central issue in the struggle against apartheid because the government attempted to limit black urbanization during the 1960s and 1970s—this led to a chronic shortage of urban housing (Meintjes 2007: 350).
In different communities the landed-elite, or young black men, or foreigners have been blamed for record levels of lawlessness. Steffen Jensen (2007: 193–5) highlights that crime has played a complex role in South Africa’s transforming society; ideas of crime and who is the criminal, create boundaries of who is and is not part of the community and who is a ‘moral person’. ’ (Jensen 2007: 194). Put another way, under the old regime most black communities were economically homogenous but since 1994 economic shifts have taken place and some black people have become wealthy while others have become comparatively poorer.
