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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.
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.
Contributors
Foreword, by Harvey Cox
Introduction: Pentecostalism and the Globalization of Illness and
Healing, by Candy Gunther Brown
Part I. 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
Part II. 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 Latina/o 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
Part III. 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
Part IV. 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
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.
"There can now be no doubt that Pentecostal-Charismatic healing
will continue to flower all over the world. It is something no
thoughtful person can afford to ignore. We need careful, accurate,
empathic, and unprejudiced studies of this reality in all its
multitudinous expressions, including healing. And this volume
provides the gold standard against which all future efforts will
have to be judged."-- Harvey G. Cox, Jr., Hollis Research Professor
of Divinity,
Harvard University
"...a unique set of cross-cultural and cross national case studies
that allow for a deeper understanding of the role that healing
plays within todays's increasingly globalized world."--CHOICE
"The text demonstrates unequivocally that
'Charismatic-Pentecostalism' proves 'feeling is believing.' The
book is foundational without antecedent or peer, possessing broad
appeal for students and scholars of religion."--Religious Studies
Review
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing is an invaluable
contribution to the field of religious studies. The book is highly
informative and rich in descriptive detail. The diversity of its
contributors...makes for a highly readable text that will appeal to
a wide range of interests."--Religion
"The care that Candy Gunther Brown took in author selection and
editing is evident in this fascinating and insightful volume...I am
certain this book will prove an invaluable resource to scholars and
students of all Christian traditions, indeed anyone interested in
healing, globalization, or mission."--Pneuma
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