Description: Based on author's dissertation: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Regent University, 2010.
Brief description:
Joy E. A. Qualls is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies at Biola University. She is a sought after speaker and writer. Her work can be found in Influence Magazine and she is the author, along with Loralie Crabtree, of "Women as Assemblies of God Church Planters: Cultural Analysis and Strategy Formation," in Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry (edited by Margaret English de Alminana and Lois Olena).
Review Quotes: "Words matter--especially in a tradition whose hallmarks, it can be argued, are inspired speech. Pentecostals live in a space defined by orality: 'speaking in tongues, ' prophecy, exhortation, preaching, and the 'call' to ministry. Joy Qualls brings the importance of the rhetoric that both empowers and disempowers women in one Pentecostal denomination to the conversation, at a time when the voices of harassed and abused women have finally taken center-stage. Words matter."
--Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Regent University School of Divinity