Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and indexes.

Introduction / Estrelda Alexander -- Wesleyan/Holiness and Pentecostal women preachers: Pentecost as the pattern for primitivism / Susie C. Stanley -- "Cause he's my chief employer": hearing women's voices in a classical Pentecostal denomination / David G. Roebuck -- Looking beyond the pulpit: social ministries and African-American Pentecostal-charismatic women in leadership / Karen Kossie-Chernyshev -- Sanctified saints, impure prophetesses: a cross-cultural reflection on gender and power in two Afro-Christian spirit-privileging churches / Deidre Helen Crumbley -- "Third class soldiers": a history of Hispanic Pentecostal clergywomen in the Assemblies of God / Gastón Espinosa -- Leadership attitudes and the ministry of single women in Assemblies of God missions / Barbara L. Cavaness -- Pentecostalism 101: your daughters shall prophesy / Janet Everts Powers -- "You've got a right to the tree of life": the biblical foundations of an empowered attitude among Black women in the sanctified church / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Spirited vestments, or, why the anointing is not enough / Cheryl Bridges Johns -- Spirit, nature and Canadian Pentecostal women: a conversation with critical theory / Pamela Holmes -- Changing images: women in Asian Pentecostalism / Julie C. Ma -- Spiritual egalitarianism, ecclesial pragmatism, and the status of women in ordained ministry / Frederick L. Ware.