Product Description
Power and Faith: How evangelical churches are quietly shaping our democracy
Author: Pontsho Pilane
Format: Softcover
‘What if I were to tell you that I used to belong to a religious cult? I’d tell you it was one of those evangelical churches, and then leave you to fill in the gaps yourself . . .
Did I eat grass? Or maybe a snake?
Was I sprayed with Doom? ‘Talking about spending most of my twenties serving in a white-led multi-racial megachurch feels like stepping on a piece of Lego. The pain was, is, obliterating.
It demands my attention. It never leaves.
It ebbs and flows. I am a former member of what I will call The Family.’ Journalist Pontsho Pilane’s experience at a powerful evangelical church changed the trajectory of her life and began her journey of deconstructing her faith.
Part memoir, part social commentary, Power and Faith lays bare the myth that our constitutional values are safe from the tentacles of religious power.
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