Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing

Name: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing
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ISBN: 9780195393415

ISBN-10: 0195393414

ISBN-13: 9780195393415

Edition: 2011

Authors: Candy Gunther Brown

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Divine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. But although we know that healing is central in these movements, we know surprisingly little about how divine healing beliefs and practices reflect the interplay of local and global patterns of cultural development. The essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse contexts, trace formal and informal lines of cultural influence across geographic and national boundaries, and ask how healing both reflects and contributes to larger processes of globalization. The collection will not only flesh out a picture…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Candy Gunther Brown is associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University.



Contributors


Foreword



Introduction: Pentecostalism and the Globalization of Illness and Healing




Europe and North America



The Global Character of Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing




Why Health and Wealth? Dimensions of Prosperity among Swedish Charismatics




Material Salvation: Healing, Deliverance, and ï¿½Breakthroughï¿½ in African Migrant Churches in Germany




Blessed Bodies: Healing within the African American Faith Movement




Jesus as the Great Physician: Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemblies of God and New Understandings of Pentecostal Healing




Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Borderlands



Latino Pentecostal Healing in the North American Borderlands




Santidad, Salvaciï¿½n, Sanidad, Liberaciï¿½n: The Word of Faith Movement among Twenty-First-Century Latina/o Pentecostals




Exorcising the Demons of Deprivation: Divine Healing and Conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism




The Salve of Divine Healing: Essential Rituals for Survival among Working-Class Pentecostals in Bogotï¿½, Colombia




Learning from the Master: Carlos Annacondia and the Standardization of Pentecostal Practices in and beyond Argentina




Africa and Asia



New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle? Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana




Healing in African Pentecostalism: The ï¿½Victorious Livingï¿½ of David Oyedepo




Reenchanted: Divine Healing in Korean Protestantism




Miracle Healing and Exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism




Divine Healing and the Growth of Practical Christianity in China




Global Crossings



Catholic Charismatic Healing in Global Perspective: The Cases of India, Brazil, and Nigeria




Global Awakenings: Divine Healing Networks and Global Community in North America, Brazil, Mozambique, and Beyond



Afterword



Index