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Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement,
with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly
takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of
the membership. The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine
Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it
provides them with a source of community and access to power.
Exploring a range of topics, from Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana
that help women challenge gender norms to evangelical gospel
musicians in Brazil, the contributors show how Pentecostalism helps
black women draw attention to and seek remediation from the
violence and injustices brought on by civil war, capitalist
exploitation, racism, and the failures of the state. In fleshing
out the experiences, theologies, and innovations of black women
Pentecostals, the contributors show how Pentecostal belief and its
various practices reflect the movement's complexity, reach, and
adaptability to specific cultural and political formations.
Contributors. Paula Aymer, John Burdick, Judith Casselberry, Deidre
Helen Crumbley, Elizabeth McAlister, Laura Premack, Elizabeth A.
Pritchard, Jane Soothill, Linda van de Kamp
With your mouth you are either going to give God dominion over you,
or you're goint to give Satan dominion over you. Quit talking the
devil's language and start talking God's language.
In his fourth God's Generals volume, Roberts Liardon
chronicles God's great healing evangelists of the
twentieth century.
* Oral Roberts
* Lester Sumrall
* Charles & Frances Hunter
* George Jeffreys
* F. F. Bosworth
As you read about the lives of these ministry pioneers, your
faith for signs and miracles will grow as you anticipate
seeing God's mighty hand move in the church today.
Larry Hart s Truth Aflame brings together charismatic renewal and
classic evangelical faith better than anything I have read. An
important contribution to the contemporary renaissance in
systematic theology Timothy George Dean of Beeson Divinity School
of Samford University, Executive Editor of Christianity Today As
the Pentecostal/charismatic movement continues to grow, so does the
need for solid theological resources for its members. While there
are many volumes of systematic theology available, very few are
written from a distinctly charismatic perspective. Truth Aflame
seeks to meet that need. While academically sound, Truth Aflame is
written with a practical, pastoral flavor. Larry Hart defines
systematic theology as the process of taking what the Bible teaches
and relating it to contemporary questions and knowledge. His
passion for the subject is evident: he is concerned that the reader
both grasps the magnificence of the study of God and allows these
great truths to be transformative. This Truth, then---liberating,
enlivening, and transforming Truth---becomes central to the ongoing
renewal of the church that we are seeing in our day. Dr. Hart
treats each of the traditional categories---revelation, God,
creation, humanity, sin, Christ, salvation, the church, and last
things---from a Pentecostal/charismatic perspective. He addresses
other theological viewpoints but does not get bogged down in
analysis and rebuttal. Further, he seeks to build bridges of
understanding to those evangelicals outside the charismatic
tradition. Clear, succinct, and readable, this revised and updated
edition of Truth Aflame is well-suited not only for students, but
for anyone desiring a greater understanding of
Pentecostal/charismatic theology."
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles
of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus
from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief
within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American
communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice
polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon
establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these
Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.
At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty,
who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless
woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched
account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a
multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion,
polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he
uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion,
and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious
belief.
This book takes a look at the faith, philosophy, and way of life of
the country's one remaining Shaker community. Lauber explores their
spiritual and daily lives by weaving together proprietary Shaker
quotations, interviews, and photographs. The result is a book that
pierces many misconceptions, most notably that the Shakers and
their faith are dead. Lauber places the topics of faith, community,
work, and worship in the context of Shaker history and contemporary
developments on the American landscape.
With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal
proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths,
the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential
religious texts produced in the western world. Written by Terryl
Givens, a leading authority on Mormonism, this compact volume
offers the only concise, accessible introduction to this
extraordinary work.
Givens examines the Book of Mormon first and foremost in terms of
the claims that its narrators make for its historical genesis, its
purpose as a sacred text, and its meaning for an audience which
shifts over the course of the history it unfolds. The author traces
five governing themes in particular--revelation, Christ, Zion,
scripture, and covenant--and analyzes the Book's central doctrines
and teachings. Some of these resonate with familiar
nineteenth-century religious preoccupations; others consist of
radical and unexpected takes on topics from the fall of Man to
Christ's mortal ministries and the meaning of atonement. Givens
also provides samples of a cast of characters that number in the
hundreds, and analyzes representative passages from a work that
encompasses tragedy, poetry, sermons, visions, family histories and
military chronicles. Finally, this introduction surveys the
contested origins and production of a work held by millions to be
scripture, and reviews the scholarly debates that address questions
of the record's historicity.
Here then is an accessible guide to what is, by any measure, an
indispensable key to understanding Mormonism. But it is also an
introduction to a compelling and complex text that is too often
overshadowed by the controversies that surround it.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of
life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the
newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about
the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from
philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
When Mike got his dream job as an FBI agent, he never thought he
would also be called as an LDS bishopfour times! Follow Mike as he
recalls his adventures as an FBI agent and inspiration as a bishop.
As Mike "fought crime and Satan with a pistol in one hand and
scriptures in the other," he learned the importance of obedience in
both jobs. Filled with surprises and unexpected thrills, and told
with humor and ease, Agent Bishop: True Stories from an FBI Agent
Moonlighting as a Mormon Bishop is the perfect memoir for the FBI
agent in all of us!
Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new
insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today. There
has been an extraordinary growth in Pentecostalism in Africa, with
Brazilian Pentecostals establishing new transnational Christian
connections, initiating widespread changes not only in religious
practice but in society. This book describes its rise in Maputo,
capital of Mozambique, and the sometimes dramatic impact of
Pentecostalism on women. Here large numbers of urban women are
taking advantage of the opportunities Pentecostalism offers to
overcome restrictions at home, pioneer new life spaces and change
their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet, conversion
can also mean a violent rupturing with tradition, with family and
with social networks. As the pastors encourage women to cut their
ties with the past, including ancestral spirits, they come to see
their kin and husbands as imbued with evil powers, and many leave
their families. Conquering spheres that used to be forbidden to
them, they often live alone as unmarried women, sometimes earning
more than men of a similar age. They are also expected to donate
huge sums to the churches, often money that they can ill afford,
bringing new hardships. Linda van de Kamp is Assistant Professor in
the Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
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