Heaven Below : Early Pentecostals and American Culture / Grant Wacker.
Wacker, Grant, author.
2022
BR1644.5.U6 ǂb W33 2001eb
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Title Heaven Below : Early Pentecostals and American Culture / Grant Wacker.
Author Wacker, Grant, author.
ISBN 9780674044739
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044739
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2003
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674044739 doi
Call Number BR1644.5.U6 ǂb W33 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.940973
Summary In this lively history of the rise of pentecostalism in the United States, Grant Wacker gives an in-depth account of the religious practices of pentecostal churches as well as an engaging picture of the way these beliefs played out in daily life. The core tenets of pentecostal belief-personal salvation, Holy Ghost baptism, divine healing, and anticipation of the Lord's imminent return-took root in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Wacker examines the various aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals, speaking in tongues, the authority of the Bible, the central role of Jesus in everyday life, the gifts of prophecy and healing, ideas about personal appearance, women's roles, race relations, attitudes toward politics and the government. Tracking the daily lives of pentecostals, and paying close attention to the voices of individual men and women, Wacker is able to identify the reason for the movement's spectacular success: a demonstrated ability to balance idealistic and pragmatic impulses, to adapt distinct religious convictions in order to meet the expectations of modern life. More than twenty million American adults today consider themselves pentecostal. Given the movement's major place in American religious life, the history of its early years-so artfully told here-is of central importance.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Temperament
2. Tongues
3. Testimony
4. Authority
5. Cosmos
6. Worship
7. Rhetoric
8. Customs
9. Leaders
10. Women
11. Boundaries
12. Society
13. Nation
14. War
15. Destiny
Epilogue
Appendix: U.S. Pentecostal Statistics
Notes
Index

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