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This chapter presents an overview of ways in which Pentecostal and charismatic spirituality interface with domestic violence. Pentecostal experiences and practices are significant forces in the world. Understanding texts, practices, beliefs, attitudes, and values of Pentecostalism can help practitioners offer healing to survivors and perpetrators from this spiritual background. Understanding biblical perspectives that address dignity of relational partners can help Pentecostal and Charismatic pastoral counselors offer help to congregants suffering from domestic abuse. The authors offer historical background and insights into Pentecostal practices, including women’s roles from early days to current situations in some of the largest Pentecostal and Charismatic denominations. We make recommendations for interactions with clients or congregants, emphasizing safety for victims and accountability for perpetrators’ behaviors, taking into consideration the Holy Spirit’s power to redeem, forgive, heal, and transform. We also discuss the context of perpetrators’ actions within global practices of commodification, and scriptural precedence for respect accorded to all humanity.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16–17
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Murphy, N., Pommert, J., Vidrine, B. (2015). Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches. In: Johnson, A. (eds) Religion and Men's Violence Against Women. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2266-6_18
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