Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926

by Barfoot,Chas H.

• ISBN13: 9781845531669
• ISBN10: 1845531663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-08-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Pentecostalism was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a rundown, semi-industrial area of Los Angeles composed of a tombstone shop, saloons, livery stables and railroad frieght yards. One hundred years later Pentecostalism has not only proven to be the most dynamic representative of Christian faith in the past century, but a transnational religious phenomenon as well. Aimee Semple McPherson was Pentecostalism's first celebrity. Arriving in Southern California with her mother, two children and $100 in 1920, she quickly achieved the height of her fame. In Los Angeles she became a folk hero and civic institution. Hollywood discovered her when she brilliantly united the sacred with the profane. Anthony Quinn would play in the Temple band and Aimee would baptize Marilyn Monroe, counsel Jean Harlow and become friends with Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

Author Biography

Chas. H. Barfoot received his theological education at Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He teaches at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Prefac	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
An Answered Prayer	p. 1
Romance and Religion	p. 25
Going to Nineveh by Way of Tarshisk: A Pentecostal Prophetess	p. 41
Tents and Tabernacles: Camping in Canaan's Happy Land	p. 57
Mother and Daughter en route to the Promised Land	p. 78
Los Angeles	p. 99
Azusa Street and Aimee of the Angels	p. 112
The Beautiful Woman in White	p. 160
Blurring Boundaries and Open Doors	p. 198
Spiritual Healing in American Protestantism: Popular Religious Culture and High Church Culture	p. 222
Barnstorming America and Building a House UntotheLord	p. 232
San Diego: The Great Jumping-Off Place	p. 249
Denver: Awake Beyond Any City	p. 260
Northern California: Baptists and Congregationalists	p. 280
Rochester: 'The Most Antagonistic City" and The Burned-Over District Revisited	p. 299
Wichita: The Middle Road	p. 331
Oakland: The Interdenominational Foursquare Gospel	p. 348
Angelus Temple: Multitudes and Miracles	p. 367
New Protestant Boundaries: Salvaging Methodism and Saving the Mainline by Purging Pentecostalism and Pushing it to the Periphery	p. 421
May 18, 1926	p. 429
Resurrection in Arizona	p. 462
Epilogue: Testimony, Peoples Religion, and the Search for Spirituality	p. 478
Notes	p. 530
Bibliography	p. 590
Index	p. 617
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