European Pentecostalism / edited by William Kay, Anne E. Dyer.

• Superior document: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies, v. 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Kay, William K., 1945-; Dyer, Anne E.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; v. 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Starting from small numbers before 1914, the Pentecostal and charismatic movement now comprises nearly one third of the whole of the global Christian population. Scholarly accounts of Pentecostal and charismatic congregations in various countries have been written but this book does something new. It provides an interconnected account of Pentecostalism in Europe, something never before been attempted because of the diversity of languages spoken across the continent. This book shows how Pentecostalism spread from the north of Europe and how it fared during two horrific wars and under communist dictatorships. In doing so it provides new theological, historical and sociological information about Pentecostal churches in eastern and southern Europe, about the Catholic Charismatic Movement and about the state of western groupings.

Table of Contents

Scandinavian Pentecostalism / Jan-Ake Alvarsson -- The development of British Pentecostalism / Neil Hudson -- The development of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in the Germanic countries / Carl Simpson -- Pentecostalism in the Dutch speaking countries / Cornelis van der Laan -- The development of Penecostalism in Francophone Europe / Raymond Pfister -- The development of the Pentecostal movement in Iberia (Spain & Portugal) / Manuel Martin-Arroyo -- The development of Pentecostalism in Italy / Carmine Napolitano -- South-eastern European nations : Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia / Driton Krasniqi -- Central European Pentecostalism : Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic & Slovakia / Tim Case, Mark Kaminski (Poland), Cipiran Balaban (Romania), Daniela Augistina (Bulgaria), Czaba Tenkely (Hungary), Jozef Brenkus (Czech Republic & Slovakia) -- The Pentecostal movement in Russia and Ukraine / Pavel Mozer and Oleg Bornovolokov -- Pentecostal theology and Protestant Europe / Jean-Daniel Pluss -- Pentecostal theology and Catholic Europe / William K Kay, with Kees Slijkerman, Raymond Pfister and Cees van der Laan -- Pentecostal theology and Communist Europe : Pentecostal power under political pressure / Peter Kuzmic - The future(s) of Pentecostalism in Europe / Raymond Pfister -- A sociological perspective on Pentecostalism / William K. Kay -- Appendix. Statistical charts of Pentecostalism in Europe.