In Narratives and Numbers: Empirical Studies of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Mark J. Cartledge provides a rich set of essays on key themes in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, ...which one of the most vibrant expressions of religion in the world today.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
This path-breaking collection brings together thirteen leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences to address some of the most pressing issues in contemporary global Pentecostalism. ...Representing institutions from eight different nations on four continents, these scholars perceptively illuminate vital matters ranging from politics, cultural performance, and sexual identity to history, theology, and socioeconomics. The articles are grounded in primary research conducted in Africa, Australia, Europe, and South America and informed by cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives, making "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" a must-read for serious students of global Pentecostalism.
A diagram for fire Bialecki, Jon
2017., 20170321, 2017, 2017-03-07, Letnik:
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"What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of ...Christianity and even the category of religion? 'A diagram for fire' engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change-surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries."--JSTOR website (viewed March 10, 2017).
To be cared for Roberts, Nathaniel
2016., 20160426, 2016, 2016-04-26, Letnik:
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To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (“untouchables”) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace ...locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a “foreign” ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force, conversion integrates the slum community—Christians and Hindus alike—by addressing hidden moral fault lines that subtly pit residents against one another in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own land."
Pentecostalism is a religion by the extracts more feedback from socially disadvantaged population: the poor. So far nothing new, Antonio Gouvea Mendonca and Ricardo Mariano, for example, has pointed ...to this reality. But why is that? If so, what are the affinities between Pentecostalism and poverty? In this sense, this test becomes relevant, as it seeks to shed light on some issues underlying this reality. For this reason, attempts by means of two approaches, a socio-political and other theological correlate phenomena, characteristics and affinities with the aim of much questioning the subject and provoke the reader and whet his curiosity about the subject on screen than be entered totalizing answers. Keywords: pentecostalism, poverty, socio-political, theology. O pentecostalismo e uma religiao retroalimentada socialmente pelos estratos mais carentes da populacao: os pobres. Ate aqui nada de novo, Mendonca e Mariano, por exemplo, ja apontaram para essa realidade. Mas por que isso ocorre? Se ha, quais sao as afinidades eletivas entre pentecostalismo e pobreza? E nesse sentido que este ensaio se torna pertinente, pois procura lancar luz sobre algumas questoes subjacentes a essa realidade. Para isso, tenta-se, por meio de duas abordagens, uma sociopolitica e outra teologica, correlacionar fenomenos, afinidades e caracteristicas, com o fito muito mais de problematizar o assunto, de provocar o leitor e de agucar sua curiosidade sobre a tematica em tela, do que exarar respostas totalizantes. Palavras-chave: pentecostalismo, pobreza, sociopolitica, teologia.
Moving by the spirit Haynes, Naomi
2017., 20170411, 2017, 2017-03-28, Letnik:
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"This book argues that the runaway popularity of Pentecostal Christianity on the Zambian Copperbelt is a result of this religion's capacity to produce novel forms of value realization. A close ...analysis of the relationships that form in Pentecostal churches reveals that Pentecostal social life is structured around an animating idea - a value - called 'moving by the Spirit.' Moving by the Spirit entails personal advancement both with regard to material prosperity and religious skill or charisma. While moving by the Spirit makes Pentecostalism attractive, it is difficult for Pentecostal believers to balance prosperity against charisma without reproducing divisions in economic status. These divisions undermine the social world of the church by limiting the access of poorer believers to the relationships with their leaders - relationships through which the value of moving by the Spirit is most effectively realized"--Provided by publisher.Prologue : a breakthrough for Mr. Zulu -- Introduction : Pentecostalism as promise, Pentecostalism as problem -- Boom and bust, revival and renewal -- Making moving happen -- Becoming Pentecostal on the Copperbelt -- Ritual and the (un)making of the Pentecostal relational world -- Prosperity, charisma, and the problem of gender -- On the potential and problems of Pentecostal exchange -- Mending mother's kitchen -- The circulation of Copperbelt saints -- Conclusion : worlds that flourish. Online version: Prologue : a breakthrough for Mr. Zulu -- Introduction : Pentecostalism as promise, Pentecostalism as problem -- Boom and bust, revival and renewal -- Making moving happen -- Becoming Pentecostal on the Copperbelt -- Ritual and the (un)making of the Pentecostal relational world -- Prosperity, charisma, and the problem of gender -- On the potential and problems of Pentecostal exchange -- Mending mother's kitchen -- The circulation of Copperbelt saints -- Conclusion : worlds that flourish. cloth : alk. paper Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, this book explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. It highlights this religion's role in making life possible in structurally adjusted Africa.
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