Mothers in the Pulpit: A Study of the Sermons at a Bengali Protestant Church in Kolkata

This paper will attempt an ethnographic study of the sermons delivered by the mothers’ association at the Sunday services of a Protestant church located in a Bengali Christian neighborhood in Kolkata, India. Given the masculinised structure of the church leadership, this paper analyse the ways in wh...

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Main Author: Dasgupta, Abhijit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Pages: 3-19
Further subjects:B History of religion studies
B Religious sociology
B Social sciences
B Religionspsycholigie
B Religionswissenschaften
B Religion & Gesellschaft
B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft
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