There is an exhaustive analysis on the life and legacy of Aimee Semple McPherson, which somewhat limits opportunity for further investigation. However, what remains unresolved is her contribution to women in ministry. Some argue that she is a pioneer for women in ministry, while…
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This dissertation utilizes archival research and digital methodologies to examine the birth and development of pentecostal mission in Hong Kong between the years 1907 and 1942. Current attention to Hong Kong has tended to focus on the first few years of pentecostal activity in t…
Between 1914 and 1935 the Church of God, a major Southern Pentecostal denomination based in Cleveland, Tennessee, accepted and promoted serpent handling as an authentic manifestation of Holy Spirit baptism and as a persuasive evangelical tool. They used their popular weekly news…
Since the late 1940s, Praise and Worship has emerged as a new mode of liturgical expression out of North American Pentecostalism. Despite a variety of conflicts that have marked its adoption, it has found a home in a wide swath of global Protestant churches and it is estimated t…
This dissertation examines how Pentecostal-Charismatics in African contexts derive spiritual knowledge from the experience of dreams and visions (D/Vs), and discusses how the experiences and their interpretations manifest a distinctive expression of epistemology. The topic is a …
This dissertation demonstrates how the Emmanuel Gospel Center, a parachurch organization in Boston, built an urban evangelical coalition out of the city’s postwar migrant communities. Efforts to resist government-directed urban renewal and a missionary posture toward the city dr…
Utilizing library research and focusing primarily on the situation in the United States, this dissertation makes a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating th…
This dissertation examines the first three decades of a missionary encounter that began under the auspices of the Congo Inland Mission (CIM – later renamed as Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission [AIMM]) in Belgian Congo. As Africans, North Americans, and Europeans entered into relati…
The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: first, to describe and interrogate the claims of the Secularization Thesis as it has been traditionally promoted and understood, and two, to understand how a revised Thesis can help us appreciate a decolonial perspective of the US La…
John Wesley's theology of love began a trajectory towards open theism just as his emphasis on an experience of holiness and the Holy Spirit began a trajectory towards pentecostalism; together these trajectories provide the basis for a constructive theology. This dissertation wil…
This dissertation argues that Pentecostal Christianity is a fundamentally global religion. By examining Pentecostalism in Brazil and Nigeria--two of the most Pentecostal countries in the world--it de-centers the United States and shows how Pentecostalism's development in the U.S…
This dissertation considers how the issues of race, gender, and class factored in the response of the Church of the Nazarene to the Azusa Street Revival, and how the processes of anti-Pentecostalization, whitening, masculinization, and embourgeoisement have contributed to elevat…
The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…
Exploring the conditions in which African religious movements emerged during the colonial period or in the post-colonial period has been a popular course of study. Our understanding of religious movements has been largely limited to the conditions which galvanized them. We must …
In the last few years renewal theology has come of age. In turn, a Pentecostal academic engagement with social ethics has begun to formulate. This work seeks to introduce German-American theologian Frederick Herzog, who formulated a Protestant liberation theology in the context …
This dissertation examines the recent influx of Pentecostal-charismatic churches into the Northern Region of Ghana, a rural, underdeveloped region whose predominantly Muslim population has increasingly become the target of evangelistic efforts undertaken by Christians from the s…
This dissertation explores how Pentecostal Christians in the small town of Copán Ruinas, Honduras strive to remake both individual subjectivities and the national body as part of a drive towards development and modernization. In the process, these Spirit-filled Christians, which…
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of the gift and how it impacts on interpersonal relationship among the Yoruba of Nigeria. The dissertation examines gift exchange as it is practiced among the worshippers of Ògún deity usually commemorated as an annual Olójó festival i…
How did a California dairy man change modern global Christianity? This dissertation focuses on the life of Demos Shakarian and his contribution to the modern Christian Charismatic movement. As such, this document serves as a narrative biography that analyzes the history and cont…