Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing

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.

Autorentext

Candy Gunther Brown received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. She is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, and the author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.

Inhalt

Contributors Foreword, by Harvey Cox Introduction: Pentecostalism and the Globalization of Illness and Healing, by Candy Gunther Brown Part I. Europe and North America 1. The Global Character of Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing, by Heather D. Curtis 2. Why Health and Wealth?: Dimensions of Prosperity among Swedish Charismatics, by Simon Coleman 3. Material Salvation: Healing, Deliverance, and ?Breakthrough? in African Migrant Churches in Germany, by Claudia W?hrisch-Oblau 4. Blessed Bodies: Healing within the African American Faith Movement, by Catherine Bowler 5. Jesus as the Great Physician: Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemblies of God and New Understandings of Pentecostal Healing, by Angela Tarango Part II. Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Borderlands 6. Latino Pentecostal Healing in the North American Borderlands, by Gast?n Espinosa 7. Santidad, Salvaci?n, Sanidad, Liberaci?n: The Word of Faith Movement among Twenty-First Century Latina/o Pentecostals, by Arlene S?nchez Walsh 8. Exorcising the Demons of Deprivation: Divine Healing and Conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism, by R. Andrew Chesnut 9. The Salve of Divine Healing: Essential Rituals for Survival among Working-Class Pentecostals in Bogot?, Colombia, by Rebecca Pierce Bomann 10. Learning from the Master: Carlos Annacondia and the Standardization of Pentecostal Practices in and beyond Argentina, by Matthew Marostica Part III. Africa and Asia 11. New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle?: Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana, by Cephas N. Omenyo 12. Healing in African Pentecostalism: The ?Victorious Living? of David Oyedepo, by Paul Gifford 13. Re-enchanted: Divine Healing in Korean Protestantism, by Sean C. Kim 14. Miracle Healing and Exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism, by Michael Bergunder 15. Divine Healing and the Growth of Practical Christianity in China, by Gotthard Oblau Part IV. Global Crossings 16. Catholic Charismatic Healing in Global Perspective: The Cases of India, Brazil, and Nigeria, by Thomas J. Csordas 17. Global Awakenings: Divine Healing Networks and Global Community in North America, Brazil, Mozambique, and Beyond, by Candy Gunther Brown Afterword, by Candy Gunther Brown Index