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1 online resource |
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Christianity and renewal - interdisciplinary studies |
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CHARIS: Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: A Life Bent Towards Politics -- 2. Born and Born Again: The Making of a Counter-Cultural Identity -- 3. Visions of The Polis: From Denominational Bureaucracy to Spiritual Community -- 4. The Capital of Power: Charisma, Friendship, and Institutions -- 5. Escaping the Iron Cage: Pentecostalism and the Malaise of Modernity -- 6. Flirting with Fanaticism: Ecstasy, Authenticity, and Middle-Class Respectability -- 7. Lonely at the Top: The Cost of Leadership -- 8. All About the Money? Saving Souls or Funding CEOs -- 9. Church Politics for Revivalism: How to contain Latter Rain -- 10. Mission In Modernity: Large-Scale Projects and Episcopal Structures -- 11. Dreaming of a Christian Nation: Pentecostal Party Politics -- 12. Epilogue: Swedish Evangelicalism and the American Religious Right (Or: Why Swedish Pentecostals Are Not Trumpists) |
| Summary |
This book investigates the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus, a monumental figure in Swedish and international Pentecostalism. Joel Halldorf describes Pethrus role in the emergence of Pentecostalism in Sweden, the ideals and practices of Swedish Pentecostalism, and the movements turn to professional party politics. When Pentecostals in the USA ventured into politics, they became allied with the Republican party, and later Donald Trump. The Swedish Pentecostals took another route: while culturally conservative, they embraced the progressive economic politics of the Social Democratic party. During the 2010s, they have also rejected the nationalism of the growing populist movement. Halldorf analyzes and explains these differences between Swedish evangelicals and Pentecostals on the one hand, and the Religious Right in the USA on the other |
| Notes |
Revised and expanded translation of Biskop Lewi Pethrus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Pethrus, Lewi, 1884-1974.
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| SUBJECT |
Pethrus, Lewi, 1884-1974 fast |
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Pentecostals -- Sweden -- Biography
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Pentecostal churches -- Political activity
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Christian theology.
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Protestantism & Protestant Churches.
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Religion -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Religion -- Christian Theology -- Ecclesiology.
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Religion -- Christianity -- Protestant.
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Pentecostals
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Sweden
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030470517 |
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3030470512 |
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