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

Informationen zum Autor Chas. H. Barfoot is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Klappentext Based on the biographer's access to internal church documents and cooperation of her family and friends, this biography offers an appraisal of Aimee's rise to fame, revivals in major cities, and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. It presents what transformed Pentecostalism into a transnational, global religion. Zusammenfassung Based on the biographer's access to internal church documents and cooperation of her family and friends, this biography offers an appraisal of Aimee's rise to fame, revivals in major cities, and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. It presents what transformed Pentecostalism into a transnational, global religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1 An Answered Prayer: Aimee Elizabeth Chapter 2 Romance and Religion: Mrs. Robert Semple Chapter 3 Going to Nineveh by Way of Tarshish: A Pentecostal Prophetess Chapter 4 Tents and Tabernacles: 'Camping in Canaan's Happy Land' Chapter 5 Mother and Daughter En Route to the Promised Land Chapter 6 Los Angeles Chapter 7 Azusa Street and Aimee of the Angels Chapter 8 The Beautiful Woman in White Chapter 9 Blurring Boundaries and Open Doors Chapter 10 'Spiritual Healing in American Protestantism: Popular Religious Culture and High Church Culture' Chapter 11 Barnstorming America and Building a House Unto the Lord Chapter 12 San Diego: 'The Great Jumping Off Place' Chapter 13 Denver: 'Awake Beyond Any City' Chapter 14 Northern California: Baptists and Congregationalists Chapter 15 Rochester: ' - The Most Antagonistic City' and 'The Burned-Over District Re-Visited' Chapter 16 Wichita: 'The Middle Road' Chapter 17 Oakland: 'The interdenominational Foursquare Gospel' Chapter 18 Angelus Temple: 'Multitudes and Miracles' Chapter 19 'New Protestant Boundaries: Salvaging Methodism and Saving the Mainline by Purging Pentecostalism and Pushing it to the Periphery' Chapter 20 May 18, 1926: 'An Evangelist Drowns' Epilogue: 'Resurrection in Arizona' Afterword: Testimony, People's Religion and the Search for Spirituality...

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Chas. H. Barfoot is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

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Based on the biographer's access to internal church documents and cooperation of her family and friends, this biography offers an appraisal of Aimee's rise to fame, revivals in major cities, and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. It presents what transformed Pentecostalism into a transnational, global religion.

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Preface Chapter 1 An Answered Prayer: Aimee Elizabeth Chapter 2 Romance and Religion: Mrs. Robert Semple Chapter 3 Going to Nineveh by Way of Tarshish: A Pentecostal Prophetess Chapter 4 Tents and Tabernacles: 'Camping in Canaan's Happy Land' Chapter 5 Mother and Daughter En Route to the Promised Land Chapter 6 Los Angeles Chapter 7 Azusa Street and Aimee of the Angels Chapter 8 The Beautiful Woman in White Chapter 9 Blurring Boundaries and Open Doors Chapter 10 'Spiritual Healing in American Protestantism: Popular Religious Culture and High Church Culture' Chapter 11 Barnstorming America and Building a House Unto the Lord Chapter 12 San Diego: 'The Great Jumping Off Place' Chapter 13 Denver: 'Awake Beyond Any City' Chapter 14 Northern California: Baptists and Congregationalists Chapter 15 Rochester: ' - The Most Antagonistic City' and 'The Burned-Over District Re-Visited' Chapter 16 Wichita: 'The Middle Road' Chapter 17 Oakland: 'The interdenominational Foursquare Gospel' Chapter 18 Angelus Temple: 'Multitudes and Miracles' Chapter 19 'New Protestant Boundaries: Salvaging Methodism and Saving the Mainline by Purging Pentecostalism and Pushing it to the Periphery' Chapter 20 May 18, 1926: 'An Evangelist Drowns' Epilogue: 'Resurrection in Arizona' Afterword: Testimony, People's Religion and the Search for Spirituality