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Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing
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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, fraudulent, anti-medical faith healing televangelists who preach a materialistic, health and wealth gospel, handle serpents, or sensationally exorcize demons, this book offers a more nuanced portrait. The collected essays illumine local variations, hybridities, and tensions in
practices on six continents, and depict the extent of human suffering and powerlessness experienced by people everywhere and the attractiveness to many of a global religious movement that promises material relief by invoking spiritual resources. This is the first book of its kind. Achieving the twin goals of thick description and comparative analysis of global practices is best achieved by bringing area experts into conversation. This volume's distinguished, international team of contributors includes sociologists, anthropologists,
historians, political scientists, theologians, and religious studies scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa. Read together, these essays set the agenda for a new program of scholarly inquiry into some of the largest forces of change at work in the world today-globalization, pentecostalism,
and healing-each of which is extremely powerful in itself and which together are reshaping our world in vastly significant ways.
Author: Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/24/2011
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780195393415
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2011
flamboyant, fraudulent, anti-medical faith healing televangelists who preach a materialistic, health and wealth gospel, handle serpents, or sensationally exorcize demons, this book offers a more nuanced portrait. The collected essays illumine local variations, hybridities, and tensions in
practices on six continents, and depict the extent of human suffering and powerlessness experienced by people everywhere and the attractiveness to many of a global religious movement that promises material relief by invoking spiritual resources. This is the first book of its kind. Achieving the twin goals of thick description and comparative analysis of global practices is best achieved by bringing area experts into conversation. This volume's distinguished, international team of contributors includes sociologists, anthropologists,
historians, political scientists, theologians, and religious studies scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa. Read together, these essays set the agenda for a new program of scholarly inquiry into some of the largest forces of change at work in the world today-globalization, pentecostalism,
and healing-each of which is extremely powerful in itself and which together are reshaping our world in vastly significant ways.
Author: Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/24/2011
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780195393415
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2011
About the Author
Candy Gunther Brown received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. She is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, and the author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.
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