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To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity

Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity

by Allan Heaton Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012

No branch of Christianity has grown more rapidly than Pentecostalism, especially in the southern hemisphere. There are over 100 million Pentecostals in Africa. In Latin America, Pentecostalism now vies with Catholicism for the soul of the continent, and some of the largest pentecostal congregations...
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The Emergence of Pentecostalism in Wales

A Historical, Theological Evaluation of the Early Development of the Assemblies of God Denomination in South East Wales

by Chris Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

British Pentecostalism is linked to the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles through T. B. Barratt and Anglican vicar Alexander A. Boddy at Sunderland. Boddy’s experience and subsequent ministry set the foundation in Britain for the rise of the Apostolic Church, the Elim Church and the Assemblies...
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by Arlene Sánchez Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

Pentecostalism is one of the most significant modern movements in global Christianity today. A mixture of ecstatic expression and earnest piety, metaphysical nuance and embodied spirituality, it is far more than the stereotype of a supernatural sideshow. In this presumably secular era, Pentecostalism...
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by Daniel Castelo, Elaine Heath
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017

Informed reassessment of Pentecostalism as a mystical tradition of the church universal Pentecostalism, says Daniel Castelo, is commonly framed as "evangelicalism with tongues" or dismissed as simply a revivalist movement. In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually...
Cover of The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007

One hundred years after the Azusa Street Revival stunned Los Angeles and changed Western Christianity, Pentecostalism has become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. However, many Pentecostal denominations in the United States are in a slow decline. Will Pentecostalism survive in North...
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Afro-Pentecostalism

Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011

In 2006, the contemporary American Pentecostal movement celebrated its 100th birthday. Over that time, its African American sector has been markedly influential, not only vis-à-vis other branches of Pentecostalism but also throughout the Christian church. Black Christians have been integrally involved...
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by Gastón Espinosa
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014

In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the...
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Spirit and Power

The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement in the world, currently estimated to have at least 500 million adherents. In the movement's early years, most Pentecostal converts lived in relative poverty, yet the rapidly shifting social ecology of Pentecostal Christians includes many middle-class...
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Migrating Faith

Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century

by Daniel Ramírez
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015

Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon--characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles,...
Cover of New Ways of Being Pentecostal in Latin America
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed Latin America’s religious landscape within the last half century or so. In a region where Catholicism reigned hegemonic for centuries, the expansion of Pentecostalism has now resulted in a situation of religious pluralism and competition,...
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Spirit on the Move

Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women...
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Signs and Wonders

Why Pentecostalism Is the World's Fastest Growing Faith

by Paul Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009

Combining personal stories and sound scholarship, Paul Alexander, a young scholar with a Pentecostal background, examines the phenomenal worldwide success of Pentecostalism. While most other works on the subject are either for academics or believers, this book speaks to a broader audience. Interweaving...
Cover of Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century
by Peter L. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013

This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and...
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Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence

Receptions, Rediscoveries and Rebuttals in the Sociology of Religion

by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

In this book David Martin brings together a coherent summary of his many years of ground-breaking academic work on the sociology of religion. Covering key and contentious areas from the last half-century such as secularisation, religion and violence, and the global rise of Pentecostalism, it presents...
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