Pentecostalism category: 1181 books
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic,...
by Samuel Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
It is time for “A New Kind of Pentecostalism” to develop unique solutions to the crises we face. Everything in our world is now interlinked. Each culture is becoming ever more bound up with the destinies of all of the other world’s cultures. Our lifestyle choices on this side of the globe can have...
Pacifism and Pentecostals in South Africa
A new hermeneutic for nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection. However, since the Second World War Pentecostals have largely abandoned their pacifist viewpoint as they have taken on a more literal Biblical hermeneutic from their...
by David Wesley Myland
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Early in the American Pentecostal outpouring an early Pioneer of American Pentecostalism coined the term ‘latter rain’ to refer to what was happening in Los Angeles at Azusa Street. In 1910 David Wesley Myland wrote this book “The Latter Rain Covenant” in which he attempted to compare the...
by Caleb Howard Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
The history of Pentecostalism in Sarnia, Ontario has been all but forgotten. For many years, the narrative began in 1936, with Edna Riblet, a Free Methodist lady, who opened a Sunday School on the outskirts of the city. The account in this book celebrates this known story, but also rediscovers a previous...
The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh
Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The Pentecostal movement has had an incredible impact on the shape of worldwide Christianity in the past century. Estimates are that Pentecostals and charismatics make up approximately one-fourth of Christians worldwide, and the numbers are only expected to grow. With these developments comes the...
by Candy Gunther Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is a global phenomenon that comprises a quarter of the world's two billion Christians and is growing rapidly. This volume reveals that the primary appeal of pentecostalism worldwide is as a religion of healing. Contrary to popular stereotypes of flamboyant,...
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...
Choosing the Jesus Way
American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, the story begins in 1918, when white missionaries fanned out from the South and Midwest to convert Native Americans in the...
Holy Jumpers
Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, William Kostlevy presents a fascinating study of the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), a religious community founded in Chicago in the early 1890s. The MCA was one of the most controversial societies of the era. Its members were called "jumpers" because of their acrobatic...
Moving by the Spirit
Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships...
Faith and Revivalism in a Nordic Romani Community
Pentecostalism Amongst the Kaale Roma of Sweden and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A Pentecostal revival is sweeping the Romani communities of Europe. The dominant religious orientation of European Roma, Pentecostalism has become one of the major factors behind Romani social development, in the wake of the discrimination, marginalisation, and growing anti-ziganist sentiments of...
To Meet and Satisfy a Very Hungry People
The Origins and Fortunes of English Pentecostalism, 1907-1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A scholarly examination of the emergence of English Pentecostalism at the beginning of the twentieth century.
This study aims to elucidate the origins of how the Pentecostal message came to England, highlighting reasons for its appeal to an initially small constituency, while tracing its emergence...
Fields White Unto Harvest
Charles F. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1988
With fifty-one million people worldwide actively worshiping in Pentecostal circles, Pentecostalism is not only the single largest movement in Protestantism, but is arguably the single most important religious movement in modern times. But where did these Pentecostals come from? And how did a movement...