Candy Gunther Brown

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199792528
• Artikelnr.: 38138278

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Foreword, by Harvey Cox
* Introduction: Pentecostalism and the Globalization of Illness and
Healing, by Candy Gunther Brown
* 1.: Europe and North America
* 1. The Global Character of Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing, by
Heather D. Curtis
* 2. Why Health and Wealth?: Dimensions of Prosperity among Swedish
Charismatics, by Simon Coleman
* 3. Material Salvation: Healing, Deliverance, and "Breakthrough" in
African Migrant Churches in Germany, by Claudia Währisch-Oblau
* 4. Blessed Bodies: Healing within the African American Faith
Movement, by Catherine Bowler
* 5. Jesus as the "Great Physician": Pentecostal Native North Americans
within the Assemblies of God and New Understandings of Pentecostal
Healing, by Angela Tarango
* 2.: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Borderlands
* 6. Latino Pentecostal Healing in the North American Borderlands, by
Gastón Espinosa
* 7. Santidad, Salvación, Sanidad, Liberación: The Word of Faith
Movement among Twenty-First Century Latin@ Pentecostals, by Arlene
Sánchez Walsh
* 8. Exorcising the Demons of Deprivation: Divine Healing and
Conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism, by R. Andrew Chesnut
* 9. The Salve of Divine Healing: Essential Rituals for Survival among
Working-Class Pentecostals in Bogotá, Colombia, by Rebecca Pierce
Bomann
* 10. Learning from the Master: Carlos Annacondia and the
Standardization of Pentecostal Practices in and beyond Argentina, by
Matthew Marostica
* 3.: Africa and Asia
* 11. New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle?: Charismatic Healing in the
Mainline Churches in Ghana, by Cephas N. Omenyo
* 12. Healing in African Pentecostalism: The "Victorious Living" of
David Oyedepo, by Paul Gifford
* 13. Re-enchanted: Divine Healing in Korean Protestantism, by Sean C.
Kim
* 14. Miracle Healing and Exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism, by
Michael Bergunder
* 15. Divine Healing and the Growth of Practical Christianity in China,
by Gotthard Oblau
* 4.: . Global Crossings
* 16. Catholic Charismatic Healing in Global Perspective: The Cases of
India, Brazil, and Nigeria, by Thomas J. Csordas
* 17. Global Awakenings: Divine Healing Networks and Global Community
in North America, Brazil, Mozambique, and Beyond, by Candy Gunther
Brown
* Afterword, by Candy Gunther Brown
* Index