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The Pentecostal World provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to a diverse expression of contemporary Christianity. Written by a team of international contributors, the volume is comprised of six sections, with each offering a critical perspective on classical themes in the study of Pentecostalism.
List of contents
Introduction: Remaking the Pentecostal World
Michael Wilkinson and Jörg Haustein Part 1: Complicating "Roots": The Global/Local Nexus in Pentecostal History 1. The Glocalization of Pentecostal Religion: The Case of Chile
Martin Lindhardt 2. No Eye Has Seen: The Local and Global in Writing Australasian Pneumatic Christianity
Mark P. Hutchinson 3
. One God, Many Movements: The Historical Narratives of Oneness Pentecostals
Andrea Shan Johnson 4. On the Footsteps of the Faith: The Nineteenth Century Transnational Foundations of Latin American Pentecostalism
Leonardo Marcondes Alves 5. Arrows Flying to the Five Continents: Hong Kong and the Pillars of Early Pentecostal Print Culture
Alex Mayfield 6. Student Movements and Spiritual identity in the Growth of Pentecostalism in Kenya
Kyama Mugambi Part 2: Abandoning "Waves": Localizing Pentecostal Historiography 7. Adversities and Peculiarities of Pentecostalism in Greece
Evangelos Karagiannis 8.
Russian Pentecostals: From the USSR to Post-Soviet Russia
Vera Kliueva and Roman Poplavsky 9.
The Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and the Birth of Indigenous Neo-Pentecostalism in Igboland, 1967-1980
Richard Burgess 10. A Revival Within a Revival: The 1940s-1950s Canadian Latter Rain Movement and Its Influence in Global Charismatic Christianity
Michael McClymond 11. The Glocalization of the Assemblies of God during the Warlord Period in China
Connie Au 12. A Brief Account of the Revival Movements among the Nagas in North East India
Elungkiebe Zeliang Part 3: Contextualizing Spirituality: Pentecostal Demonology and Inter-religious Encounters 13. Toward a Globally Contextual Model of Demonology and Deliverance
Candy Gunther Brown 14. The Historical Implications of Wimber's Theology of Healing and Deliverance
Peter Althouse 15. The Contextuality of a Pentecostal Witchcraft Theology in Nigeria
Judith Bachmann 16. It Takes Two to Tangle? A Comparative Approach to Pentecostal Mission(s) in Muslim Zanzibar
Hans Olsson 17. Conversion and (Dis)Continuity among the Bhil Pentecostals of Rajasthan
India Sarbeswar Sahoo 18. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America: Between Church institution and Popular Religion
Jakob Egeris Thorsen Part 4: Problematizing Ethics: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Pentecostal Fragmentation 19. You Preach Like a Man: Beyond the Typical Gender Roles of Canadian Pentecostalism
Linda M. Ambrose 20. Queering Black Pentecostalism in the United States
Keri Day 21. Early Black-Led Pentecostal Interraciality as a Site for Theorizing Race
David D. Daniels, III 22. Pentecostal Plurality and Sexual Politics in Africana Worlds
Adriaan van Klinken 23. Female Pastoral Leadership, Ambivalent Femininities and African Pentecostalism in Belgium
Joseph Bosco Bangura 24. Ideological Coloniality and Decolonizing Worship Practice at Hillsong
Ntandoyenkosi Mlambo and Tanya Riches Part 5: Mapping Power: Pentecostal Flows of Politics and Prosperity 25. Prayer Warriors in Global Entanglements
Giovanni Maltese 26. Grounding the Prosperity Gospel: Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana
Karen Lauterbach and George M. Bob-Milliar 27. Pentecostalism and Global Development: Assessing Pentecostal Engagement with Social Development in Theory and Practice
Christopher Wadibia 28. Zambian (Unruly) Pentecostalism
Chammah J. Kaunda 29. The Many Faces of Pentecostal Politics: Socio-anthropological Approaches from the Southern Cone
Nicolás Panotto 30. Pentecostal Complex in Poland: Missionaries, Migrants, and Social Imaginaries
Natalia Zawiejska Part 6: Tracing Homogeneities: Media, Knowledge, and Institutions in the Making of Pentecostal Identity 31. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Pope Francis between Pastoral Openness and Ecclesiastical Centralization
Valentina Ciciliot 32. What Role Does Ecumenism Play for Pentecostals?
Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. 33. Consuming is Believing: Pentecostal Material Culture in Argentina
Joaquín Algranti 34. Of Clouds and Cathedrals: Metaphor and Ambivalence in Charismatic Media Ideologies
Travis Warren Cooper 35. Problematizing the Statistical Study of Global Pentecostalism: An Evaluation of David B. Barrett's Research Methodology
Adam Stewart 36. Constructing Global Pentecostalism and the Role of the Academy
Allan Heaton Anderson
About the author
Michael Wilkinson is Professor of Sociology at Trinity Western University, Canada.
Jörg Haustein is Associate Professor of World Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Summary
The Pentecostal World provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to a diverse expression of contemporary Christianity. Written by a team of international contributors, the volume is comprised of six sections, with each offering a critical perspective on classical themes in the study of Pentecostalism.
