Pentecostalism

Sacred texts authored in antiquity present a challenge for contemporary religious practitioners because there is always a question regarding how to interpret and apply the message today. Prominent Pentecostal theologian and disability theorist Amos Yong faces this challenge conc…

This dissertation examines the ways changing Muslim-Christian relations and new gendered norms constitute the identities of orthodox Muslims and charismatic Christians in Java, Indonesia. The research is based on 12 months of fieldwork between 2009 and 2010 in the multi-religiou…

Polite Americans do not publicly discuss religion or class, particularly in mundane, daily conversation. The taboo against the merging of these conversational topics helps obscure a double standard—while American ideology maintains that we revere religious freedom and do not hav…

This project explores the nature of formal theological education as it relates to Pentecostal Blackwomen in the United States. Parker Palmer’s tragic gap is used to re-member home as a space to embody an integrated identity, which encompasses the various intersections of Black w…

The dissertation addresses the integration of epistemology, hermeneutics, and black folk religion as an untapped theological source in black Pentecostalism. The discussion will explore narratives embedded in black Pentecostalism that will ultimately inform contemporary leadershi…

This thesis is a phenomenological study of charismatic Christianity in the global south as it pertains to the spread of charismatic Christianity in the country of Brazil. The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons for the rapid spread of Pentecostalism in Brazil in th…

This dissertation presents contemporary ethnographic information on the Xokleng (Laklanõ ) Indians, a southern Gê group that lives in the highlands of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It analyzes their contemporary social formations, political dynamics, and culture. In it, I argue that, …

Based on extensive fieldwork in postwar Guatemala City's most prominent neo-Pentecostal mega-churches, this study addresses the continued entanglement of evangelical Christianity and efforts at democratization through an ethnography of Christian citizenship--the identity that be…

This dissertation offers a historical narrative and postcolonial assessment of the Pentecostal mission in Palestine. Its methodology is informed by Edward Said's Orientalism. The Pentecostal mission in Palestine is a virtually unknown episode in the history of Pentecostalism. Th…