Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture

The charismatic movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term "charismatic" refers to the "gifts of the Holy Spirit" - speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment - said to be available to Christians who have surrendered their lives to Christ. This book takes readers on a journey to discover the history of the movement and the reasons why more and more Christians are finding the charismatic experience so meaningful. In this important work, leading scholars in the fields of religion and anthropology discuss the thought patterns and religious traditions of charismatics throughout the world. By examining believers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the contributors provide a comprehensive overview of a charismatic tapestry that appears to transcend national, ethnic, racial, and class boundaries. In her introduction, Karla Poewe remarks that the most important aspect of charismatic Christianity is its emphasis on a personal relationship with God and neighbor. Believers attempt to integrate mind, body, and spirit, thereby providing for a more holistic religious experience. Poewe points out that charismatic Christianity and Pentecostalism have suffered from academic biases in the past; this book is one of the first to place the charismatic experience in an academic framework. Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture will appeal to students and specialists in several fields, including religious studies, anthropology, and sociology. Christians of all denominations will discover much of interest in this book, and charismatics will find its inclusiveness appealing.

ISBN 0872499960   Pages 290 ISBN13 9780872499966 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of South Carolina Press   Weight (grammes) 658 Imprint University of South Carolina Press   Published in South Carolina Format Hardback   Series title Studies in Comparative Religion (Hardcover) Publication date 31 Dec 1994   Height (mm) 241 Non-book description xiv, 300 p ;   Width (mm) 165 Library of Congress 94006874   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 270.82   Academic level Undergraduate, General DEWEY edition DC20

		General Editor's Preface
		Preface
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction: The Nature, Globality, and History of Charismatic Christianity by Karla Poewe		1
Ch. 1		The Normalization of Religious Experience: Healing, Prophecy, Dreams, and Visions by Andre Droogers		33
Ch. 2		Charismatic Churches in South Africa: A Critique of Criticisms and Problems of Bias by Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe		50
Ch. 3		Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity in Latin America by David Martin		73
Ch. 4		The Empire Strikes Back: Korean Pentecostal Mission to Japan by Mark R. Mullins		87
Ch. 5		Are Pentecostals and Charismatics Fundamentalists? A Review of American Uses of These Categories by Russell P. Spittler		103
Ch. 6		Conflicting Visions of the Past: Prophetic Use of History in the Early American Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements by Charles Nienkirchen		119
Ch. 7		Christianity and the Construction of Global History: The Example of Legio Maria by Nancy Schwartz		134
Ch. 8		Third-Generation Pentecostal Language: Continuity and Change in Collective Perceptions by Stanley Johannesen		176
Ch. 9		The Pentecostal Elites and the Pentecostal Poor: A Missed Dialogue? by W. J. Hollenweger		200
Ch. 10		Charismatic Christian Thought: Experience, Metonymy, and Routinization by Gerard Roelofs		217
Ch. 11		Rethinking the Relationship of Anthropology to Science and Religion by Karla Poewe		234
		Bibliography		259
		Contributors		293
		Index		295

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