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While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant
decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the
fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book
examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism
among Italian Americans to demonstrate how Pentecostalism moves so
freely through widely varying cultures. The book begins with a
survey of the origins and early shaping forces of Italian American
Pentecostalism. It charts its birth among immigrants in Chicago as
well as the initial expansion fuelled by the convergence of
folk-Catholic, Reformed evangelical, and Holiness sources. The book
goes on to explain how internal and external pressures demanded
structure, leading to the founding of the Christian Church of North
America in 1927. Paralleling this development was the emergence of
the Italian District of the Assemblies of God, the Assemblee di Dio
in Italia (Assemblies of God in Italy), the Canadian Assemblies of
God, and formidable denominations in Brazil and Argentina. In the
closing chapters, based on analysis of key theological loci and in
lieu of contemporary developments, the future prospects of the
movement are laid out and assessed. This book provides a purview
into the religious lives of an underexamined, but culturally
significant group in America. As such, it will be of great interest
to scholars of Pentecostalism, Religious Studies and Religious
History, as well as Migrations Studies and Cultural Studies in
America
While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant
decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the
fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book
examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism
among Italian Americans to demonstrate how Pentecostalism moves so
freely through widely varying cultures. The book begins with a
survey of the origins and early shaping forces of Italian American
Pentecostalism. It charts its birth among immigrants in Chicago as
well as the initial expansion fuelled by the convergence of
folk-Catholic, Reformed evangelical, and Holiness sources. The book
goes on to explain how internal and external pressures demanded
structure, leading to the founding of the Christian Church of North
America in 1927. Paralleling this development was the emergence of
the Italian District of the Assemblies of God, the Assemblee di Dio
in Italia (Assemblies of God in Italy), the Canadian Assemblies of
God, and formidable denominations in Brazil and Argentina. In the
closing chapters, based on analysis of key theological loci and in
lieu of contemporary developments, the future prospects of the
movement are laid out and assessed. This book provides a purview
into the religious lives of an underexamined, but culturally
significant group in America. As such, it will be of great interest
to scholars of Pentecostalism, Religious Studies and Religious
History, as well as Migrations Studies and Cultural Studies in
America
This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical
pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of
their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion.
Pentecostalism's inception in the early twentieth century,
particularly in its global South permutations, was defined by its
grassroots character. In contrast to the top-down, hierarchical
structure typical of Western forms of Christianity, the emergence
of Latin American Pentecostalism embodied stability from the bottom
up-among the common people. While the rise to prominence of the
Assemblies of God in Brazil, the Western hemisphere's largest
(non-Catholic) denomination, demanded structure akin to mainline
contexts, classical pentecostals such as the Christian Congregation
movement cling to their grassroots identity. Comparing the
migratory and missional flow of movements with similar European and
US roots, this book considers the prospects for classical Brazilian
pentecostals with an eye on the problems of church growth and
polity, gender, politics, and ethnic identity.
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