Search Results - Pentecostalism

Charitable choices religion, race, and poverty in the post welfare era / by Bartkowski, John P., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The welfare revolution and charitable choice -- Social welfare and faith based benevolence in historical perspective -- Faith based poverty relief : congregational strategies -- A tale of two churches : United Methodists in black and white -- Debating devolution: Pentecostal and Southern Baptist perspectives -- Invisible minorities : transnational migrants in Mississippi -- Street level benevolence at the march for Jesus -- Charitable choice : promise and peril in the post welfare era.…”
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Globalizing the sacred religion across the Americas / by Vásquez, Manuel A.

Table of Contents: “…The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? …”
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The truth about conservative Christians what they think and what they believe / by Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conservative Christians in American politics -- The politics of conservative Christianity in black and white -- Freedom, inequality, and conservative Christianity -- A social portrait of conservative Christians -- Conservative Christian growth: membership begins at home -- Conservative Christians in the "sexual revolution" -- The conservative Christian family and the "feminist revolution" -- Happiness and lifestyle among conservative Christians -- The Pentecostals: ultimate conservative Christians -- Conservative Christians and Catholics: too estranged for alliance -- Conclusions.…”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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New territories, new perspectives the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. Lawless -- Vodou purchase : the Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean world / by Paul Christopher Johnson -- Spirituality and resistance among African-Creoles / by John Stewart -- New Orleans as an American city : origins, exchanges, materialities, and religion / by Charles H. …”
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Deus in machina religion, technology, and the things in between /

Table of Contents: “…Religion, technology, and the things in between / Jeremy Stolow -- Calendar, clock, tower / John Durham Peters -- Beating clock, oscillating string : vibrating time-sense between religion and Machine / Wolfgang Ernst -- The electric touch machine miracle scam : body, technology, and the (dis)authentication of the pentecostal supernatural / Marleen de Witte -- The spiritual nervous system : reflections on a magnetic cord designed for spirit communication / Jeremy Stolow -- An empowered world : Buddhist medicine and the potency of prayer in Japan / Jason Ānanda Josephson -- Does submission to God's will preclude biotechnological intervention? …”
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The embodiment of leadership

Table of Contents: “…The anatomy of leadership / Stephanie Guastella Lindsay -- Dramatic leadership : Dorothy Heathcote's autopoietic, or embodied leadership model / Kate Katafiasz -- Leadership in the time of liminality : a framework for leadership in an era of deep transformation / David Holzmer -- Seeking alignment in the world body : the art of embodiment / Skye Burn -- (De/re)constructing leading bodies : developing critical attitudes and somaesthetic practices / Maylon Hanold -- Dollmaking as an expression of women's leadership / Kimberly Yost -- Leadership embodiment and resistance : the complex journey of Latin American pentecostal women pastors / Nora Mendez and Fernando Mora -- Michelle Obama's embodied authentic leadership : leading by lifestyle / Elizabeth D. …”
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Paul, grace and freedom essays in honour of John K. Riches /

Table of Contents: “…Forsyth and the Christian life / Angus Paddison -- Against pecking : Christian law after Pentecost / Ben Quash -- Afterword: Paul, grace and freedom : a response / John Riches.…”
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The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions /

Table of Contents: “…Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler -- New religious movement(s) of the great migration era -- Fauset's (missing) Pentecostals : church mothers, remaking respectability, and religious modernism / Clarence E. …”
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