Afro-Pentecostalism : : Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture / / ed. by Estrelda Y. Alexander, Amos Yong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Estrelda Y.,; Cooper, Valerie C.,; Daniels, David D.,; Gallien, Louis B.,; Hardy, Clarence E.,; Irvin, Dale T.,; Kalu, Ogbu U.,; Lovett, Leonard,; Robeck, Cecil M.,; Sanders, Cheryl J.,; Scandrett-Leatherman, Craig,; Turner, William C.,; Ware, Frederick L.,; Yong, Amos,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexander, Estrelda Y.,; Yong, Amos,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In 2006, the contemporary American Pentecostal movement celebrated its 100th birthday. Over that time, its African American sector has been markedly influential, not only vis-à-vis other branches of Pentecostalism but also throughout the Christian church. Black Christians have been integrally involv...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• Part I: Origins
• 2. The Azusa Street Mission and Historic Black Churches
• 3. Navigating the Territory
• Part II: Gender and Culture
• 4. Laying the Foundations for Azusa
• 5. Church Mothers and Pentecostals in the Modern Age
• 6. Rites of Lynching and Rights of Dance
• 7. Crossing Over Jordan
• Part III: Prophetic Ethics
• 8. Pentecostal Ethics and the Prosperity Gospel
• 9. Ethics in a Prophetic Mode
• Part IV: Pneumatology
• 10. Pneumatology
• 11. On the Compatibility/ Incompatibility of Pentecostal Premillennialism with Black Liberation Theology
• Part V: Afro-Pentecostalism in Global Context
• 12. Black Joseph
• 13. Meeting Beyond These Shores
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index