Margaret M Poloma: 3 books
The Heart of Religion
Spiritual Empowerment, Benevolence, and the Experience of God's Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on an extensive survey of 1,200 Christian men and women across the United States, as well as 120 in-depth interviews, Matthew T. Lee, Margaret M. Poloma, and Stephen G. Post offer a deeper and more nuanced study of religion and benevolence, finding that it is the experience of God as loving that activates religious networks and moves people to do good for others.
Blood and Fire
Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
What does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to “love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself”? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived relationship...
The Assemblies of God
Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and mystery that makes“supernatural” experiences, such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal...