Pentecostals in America

Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh provides a thematic overview of Pentecostalism in America, covering Pentecostal faith and practices, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, trends and offshoots, and the future of American Pentecostalism. She also places it in context within the larger narrative of American religious history.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Pentecostal Faith and Practice
2. Pentecostal Innovators
3. Gender, Sexualities, and Pentecostalism
4. Pentecostalism and Popular Culture
5. “Laundry Talk”: Race, Ethnicity, and the Construction of an American Pentecostal Identity
6. Outliers: Heresy and American Pentecostalism
Epilogue. A Whole New Thing—The Future of Pentecostalism in America
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh is associate professor of religious studies at Azusa Pacific University. She is the author of the award-winning Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society (Columbia, 2003).

Summary

Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh provides a thematic overview of Pentecostalism in America, covering Pentecostal faith and practices, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, trends and offshoots, and the future of American Pentecostalism. She also places it in context within the larger narrative of American religious history.

Additional text

Pentecostals in American is a very readable text that should be of interest to both scholars in and outside of the field of Pentecostal studies, and it will be especially useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in religious studies, American studies, and more,

Product details

• Authors: Arlene S. Walsh, Arlene Sanchez Walsh, Arlene Sánchez Walsh, Arlene Sßnchez Walsh
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780231141833
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14183-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series; Columbia Contemporary American; Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, HISTORY / United States / General, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Pentecostal Churches, Pentecostal or Charismatic Churches