Foul Demons, Come Out! The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Faith Healing

Name: Foul Demons, Come Out! The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Faith Healing
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ISBN: 9780275960834

ISBN-10: 0275960838

ISBN-13: 9780275960834

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stephen J. Pullum

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Pullum examines the rhetorical genre of 20th-century American faith healing. He first analyzes respectively the rhetoric of Aimee Semple McPherson, William Branham, Oral Roberts, Asa Alonzo Allen, Ernest Angley, Kathryn Kuhlman, and Benny Hinn--the most prominent American faith healers of this century. For each, he discusses their background, the nature of the audiences to whom they preached, and why they were so successful. Pullum concludes by drawing together the major rhetorical features of faith-healing discourse. Pullum shows that faith-healing discourse follows the strategy of offering hope to the hopeless, giving God the glory, articulating humble beginnings, offering testimony of…

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Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 7/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction They Called Her "Sister"


Aimee Semple McPherson From "Sassafras Country Boy" to World-Renown Preacher


Revivalist William Branham "God's Man for this Hour"


Oral Roberts "God's Man of Faith and Power"


Asa Alonzo Allen Akron's Idiosyncratic Evangelist and Faith Healer


Ernest Angley The Red-Haired "Preacher Lady" from Concordia, Missouri


Kathryn Kuhlman They Call Him "Pastor"


Benny Hinn Their Speech Betrayeth Them


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