| Description |
1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Pentecostalism and the globalization of illness and healing / Candy Gunther Brown -- pt. I. Europe and North America. The global character of nineteenth-century divine healing / Heather D. Curtis ; Why health and wealth? : dimensions of prosperity among Swedish charismatics / Simon Coleman ; Material salvation : healing, deliverance, and "breakthrough" in African migrant churches in Germany / Claudia Währisch-Oblau ; Blessed bodies : healing within the African American faith movement / Catherine Bowler ; Jesus as the great physician : Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemblies of God and new understandings of Pentecostal healing / Angela Tarango -- Latin America, the Caribbean, and the borderlands. Latino Pentecostal healing in the North American borderlands / Gastón Espinosa ; Santidad, salvación, sanidad, liberación : the Word of Faith movement among twenty-first-century Latina/o Pentecostals / Arlene Sáchez Walsh ; Exorcising the demons of deprivation : divine healing and conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism / R. Andrew Chesnut ; The salve of divine healing : essential rituals for survival among working-class Pentecostals in Bogotá, Colombia / Rebecca Pierce Bromann ; Learning from the master : Carlos Annacondia and the standardization of Pentecostal practices in and beyond Argentina / Matthew Marostica -- Africa and Asia. New wine in an old wine bottle? : charismatic healing in the mainline churches in Ghana / Cephas N. Omenyo ; Healing in African Pentecostalism : the "victorious living" of David Oyedepo / Paul Gifford ; Reenchanted : divine healing in Korean Protestantism / Sean C. Kim ; Miracle healing and exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism / Michael Bergunder ; Divine healing and the growth of practical Christianity in China / Gotthard Oblau --Global crossings. Catholic charismatic healing in global perspective : the cases of India, Brazil, and Nigeria / Thomas J. Csordas ; Global awakenings : divine healing networks and global community in North America, Brazil, Mozambique, and beyond |
| Summary |
Divine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. The essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse contexts, and much more |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spiritual healing.
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Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Pentecostalism.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Soteriology.
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Globalization
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Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Pentecostalism
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Spiritual healing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Candy Gunther.
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| ISBN |
9780199792528 |
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0199792526 |
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