Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social EngagementUniversity of California Press, 3 sept. 2007 - 263 pagini How and why is Christianity's center of gravity shifting to the developing world? To understand this rapidly growing phenomenon, Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori spent four years traveling the globe conducting extensive on-the-ground research in twenty different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The result is this vividly detailed book which provides the most comprehensive information available on Pentecostalism, the fastest-growing religion in the world. Rich with scenes from everyday life, the book dispel many stereotypes about this religion as they build a wide-ranging, nuanced portrait of a major new social movement. |
Cuprins
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| 15 | |
Ministries Beliefs and Motivations | 39 |
Programs Serving Children and Youth | 68 |
Transforming Individuals and Society | 99 |
Meeting God in Worship and Prayer | 129 |
Democracy and Upward Social Mobility | 160 |
Giving the Ministry to the People | 184 |
8 The Future of Progressive Pentecostalism | 211 |
List of Interviews | 225 |
Notes | 235 |
Contents of DVD | 245 |
Index | 249 |
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Pagina 58 - Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
Pagina 58 - And the king will answer them. 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.
Pagina 240 - Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967).
Pagina 35 - One aspect of this movement was a growing dissatisfaction with the empty formalism of much educational content in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century; with stultifying drill and catechism-like methods of teaching; with the curriculum's lack of relatedness to the everyday experience of the child, his physical world, and social environment; and with pupils' rote verbalization and memorization of ideas for which they had no adequate referents in experience.
Pagina 240 - Pentecostal Social Concern and the Biblical Mandate of Social Justice', Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 9 (Fall 1987), 129-53. 45. In this context, Russell P. Spittler's comment that glossolalia might be 'right-hemisphere speech
Pagina 58 - When the Son of Man comes in his glory . . . , he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him...