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dc.contributor.authorNandera Ernest Mhando, Loreen Maseno, Kupakwashe Mtata, Mathew Senga
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-04T07:58:50Z
dc.date.available2020-09-04T07:58:50Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-03
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2708
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the rise of female Pentecostal-Charismatic (PC) church leaders and how they legitimize themselves in a male dominated religious field in Kenya and Tanzania. It explores, in a qualitative way, four women leaders’ modes of attaining legitimacy in African PC milieus and contributes empirically based knowledge from four cases which include Eleonorah Wambui of Prosperity Gospel Ministries and Jesca Njuguna of Prophetic Word Ministry in Kenya, as well as Neema Mwambembela of Holy Ghost Power Assemblies and Irene John of Miracle Prayer Ministry in Tanzania. We make reference to Boulding’s delineation of sources of legitimacy ([1967] ‘The Legitimacy of Economics.’ Economic Inquiry 5 (4): 299–307). We found that the four East African female preachers that we examined share certain common practices, but that differences are manifest among them owing to differences in their …en_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectPentecostalism, female church leaders, sources of legitimacy, Kenya, Tanzaniaen_US
dc.titleModes of legitimation by female Pentecostal-Charismatic preachers in East Africa: a comparative study in Kenya and Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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