Pentecostal power : expressions, impact, and faith of Latin American Pentecostalism / / edited by Calvin L. Smith.

• Superior document: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies, v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Smith, Calvin L.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Since the 1980's an explosion of Pentecostalism across Latin America has attracted considerable attention across various academic disciplines. This edited volume provides a multidisciplinary and continent-wide treatment of Latin American Pentecostalism by various experts, representing an important contribution to the current literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Latin American Pentecostalism and the academy / Calvin L. Smith -- Pt. 1. History and expressions of Latin American Pentecostalism. Redemption from below : the emergence of the Latin American popular Pentecostals / Everett A. Wilson -- Another way of being Pentecostal / Juan Sepúlveda -- Hispanic Pentecostals in the United States / Carmelo Álvarez -- Pt. 2. Theoretical treatments and political impact of Latin American Pentecostalism. Latin American Pentecostalsim : the ideological battleground / Bernice Martin -- Interpretations of Latin American Pentecostalism : 1960s to the present / Bernice Martin -- Explaining Central American Pentecostalism within social inequality and conflict : on habitus-analysis as a clue to describe religious praxis / Heinrich W. Schäfer -- Evaluating prophetic radicalism : the nature of Pentecostal politics in Brazil / Stephen Hunt -- Pt. 3. Theological analyses of Latin American Pentecostalism. Pneumapraxis and eschatological urgency : a survey of Latin American Pentecostal theology and its outworking / Calvin L. Smith -- Pentecostalism's theological reconstruction of the identity of the Latin American family / Virginia Nolivos and Eloy H. Nolivos -- Why the devil is Satan so important in Chilean Pentecostalism? : power, resistance and Pentecostal micro-politics / Martin Lindhardt -- Roman Cahtolic-Pentecostal dialogue : challenges and lessons for living together / Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. -- Concluding remarks / William K. Kay.