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Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century / edited by Robert W. Hefner ; afterword by Peter L. Berger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, c2013.Description: ix, 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780253010810 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253010810 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253010865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253010861 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.83 23 GLO
Contents:
The unexpected modern--gender, piety, and politics in the global Pentecostal surge / Robert W. Hefner --Pentecostalism: an alternative form of modernity and modernization? / David Martin -- The future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: the limits to growth / Paul Freston -- Social mobility and politics in African Pentecostal modernity / David Maxwell -- Tensions and trends in Pentecostal gender and family relations / Bernice Martin -- Gender, modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China / Nahnlai Cao -- The routinzation of Soviet Pentecostalism and the liberation of charisma in Russia and Ukraine / Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan -- Pentecost amid Pujas: charismtaic Christianity and Dalit women in twenty-first-century India / Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah -- Politics, education, and civic participation: Catholic charismatic modernities in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele -- Afterword / Peter L. Berger.
Summary: "This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developoments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on gender relations, citizenship, and the future of global Christianity itself. Leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and history present useful introductions to global issues and country-specific studies drawn from Latin America, Africaw, Asia, and the former USSR." -- back cover
Holdings
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Short Loan Books Bishop Bukenya Library Closed Access l Short Loan 270.83 GLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 142983

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index.

The unexpected modern--gender, piety, and politics in the global Pentecostal surge / Robert W. Hefner --Pentecostalism: an alternative form of modernity and modernization? / David Martin -- The future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: the limits to growth / Paul Freston -- Social mobility and politics in African Pentecostal modernity / David Maxwell -- Tensions and trends in Pentecostal gender and family relations / Bernice Martin -- Gender, modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China / Nahnlai Cao -- The routinzation of Soviet Pentecostalism and the liberation of charisma in Russia and Ukraine / Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan -- Pentecost amid Pujas: charismtaic Christianity and Dalit women in twenty-first-century India / Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah -- Politics, education, and civic participation: Catholic charismatic modernities in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele -- Afterword / Peter L. Berger.

"This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developoments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on gender relations, citizenship, and the future of global Christianity itself. Leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and history present useful introductions to global issues and country-specific studies drawn from Latin America, Africaw, Asia, and the former USSR." -- back cover

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