Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing

by Brown, Candy Gunther

• ISBN13: 9780195393415
• ISBN10: 0195393414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is a global phenomenon that comprises a quarter of the world's two billion Christians and is growing rapidly. This volume reveals that the primary appeal of pentecostalism worldwide is as a religion of healing. Contrary to popular stereotypes of flamboyant, fraudulent, anti-medical "faith healing" televangelists who preach a materialistic, "health and wealth" gospel, handle serpents, or sensationally "exorcize" demons, this book offers a more nuanced portrait. The collected essays illumine local variations, hybridities, and tensions in practices on six continents, and depict the extent of human suffering and powerlessness experienced by people everywhere and the attractiveness to many of a global religious movement that promises material relief by invoking spiritual resources. This is the first book of its kind. Achieving the twin goals of thick description and comparative analysis of global practices is best achieved by bringing area experts into conversation. This volume's distinguished, international team of contributors includes sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, theologians, and religious studies scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa. Read together, these essays set the agenda for a new program of scholarly inquiry into some of the largest forces of change at work in the world today-globalization, pentecostalism, and healing-each of which is extremely powerful in itself and which together are reshaping our world in vastly significant ways.

Author Biography

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction: Pentecostalism and the Globalization of Illness and Healing	p. 3
Europe and North America
The Global Character of Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing	p. 29
Why Health and Wealth? Dimensions of Prosperity among Swedish Charismatics	p. 47
Material Salvation: Healing, Deliverance, and ôBreakthroughö in African Migrant Churches in Germany	p. 61
Blessed Bodies: Healing within the African American Faith Movement	p. 81
Jesus as the Great Physician: Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemblies of God and New Understandings of Pentecostal Healing	p. 107
Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Borderlands
Latino Pentecostal Healing in the North American Borderlands	p. 129
Santidad, Salvación, Sanidad, Liberación: The Word of Faith Movement among Twenty-First-Century Latina/o Pentecostals	p. 151
Exorcising the Demons of Deprivation: Divine Healing and Conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism	p. 169
The Salve of Divine Healing: Essential Rituals for Survival among Working-Class Pentecostals in Bogotá, Colombia	p. 187
Learning from the Master: Carlos Annacondia and the Standardization of Pentecostal Practices in and beyond Argentina	p. 207
Africa and Asia
New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle? Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana	p. 231
Healing in African Pentecostalism: The ôVictorious Livingö of David Oyedepo	p. 251
Reenchanted: Divine Healing in Korean Protestantism	p. 267
Miracle Healing and Exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism	p. 287
Divine Healing and the Growth of Practical Christianity in China	p. 307
Global Crossings
Catholic Charismatic Healing in Global Perspective: The Cases of India, Brazil, and Nigeria	p. 331
Global Awakenings: Divine Healing Networks and Global Community in North America, Brazil, Mozambique, and Beyond	p. 351
Afterword	p. 371
Index	p. 379
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