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PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

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ISSN (Print) 2041-3599 - ISSN (Online) 1871-7691
Published by Equinox Publishing

[23 journals]

Editorial
- Authors: Allan Anderson
  PubDate: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:04:49 +000
Marjoe Gortner, Imposter Revivalist: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Religious Misbehavior
- Authors: Travis Warren Cooper
  Abstract: Revivalism is a hallmark of pentecostal history in North America. This study analyzes the infamous case of evangelist Marjoe Gortner as he carries out a revival tour under the guises of authenticity and sincerity. After providing a brief biographical overview of both the revivalist’s life history and Marjoe, the documentary film, I analyze Marjoe’s roleplaying through Judith Becker’s theoretical application of cognitive theories of being, perception, and embodiment to pentecostal praxis. I argue that the processes of trance, re-entry, and structural coupling implicate Marjoe as more than just an unbelieving instigator of ecstatic religious phenomena. He is caught up in the production of intense effervescent states of social or corporate energy, and himself becomes a vital part of the revival experience. Neurologically, Marjoe experiences cognitive dissonance in terms of self-identity. The learned nature of revival services, furthermore, demonstrates the complexly embodied nature of ecstatic religious rituals.
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:46:25 +000
Lindhardt, Martin, Power in Powerlessness: A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds in Urban Chile. Religion in the Americas Series, vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 270pp. Hbk. ISBN 9789004216006. €105.
- Authors: Allan Anderson
  PubDate: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:21:11 +000
Cleary, Edward L., The Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Latin America. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011. 340pp. Hbk. ISBN: 9780813036083. $74.95.
- Authors: Jakob Thorsen
  PubDate: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:20:07 +000
O’Neill, Kevin Lewis, City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala. The Anthropology of Christianity, vol. 7 (Joel Robbins, ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. xxix + 278pp. Pbk. ISBN: 978-0-520-26063-4. $24.95.
- Authors: C. Mathews Samson
  PubDate: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:19:22 +000
Reed, David A., In Jesus’ Name: The History and Beliefs of Oneness Pentecostals. Blandford Forum, UK: Deo Publishing, 2008. xii + 394pp. Pbk. ISBN 9781905679010. UK £25.95/Europe £27.95/ROW £29.95.
- Authors: Edmund Rybarczyk
  PubDate: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:18:25 +000
Martin, David, The Future of Christianity. Reflections on Violence and Democracy, Religion and Secularization. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 240pp. ISBN 9781409406693. £16.99.
- Authors: Paul Freston
  PubDate: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:17:13 +000
“No Me Olvides”/”Forget Me Not”: Pentecostal Praxis and Solidarity in Xenophobic Times
- Authors: Daniel Ramírez
  Abstract: This article proposes an interdisciplinary conversation about paradigm shifts within the context of migration and xenophobia along the US–Mexico border. Data in church documents, periodical reports, testimonials, life histories, congregational records, and hymnody compel a rethinking of received notions of early Pentecostals as socially or politically disengaged, and provide a historical corrective to contemporary social scientific studies of Latino/Latin American Pentecostalism.
  PubDate: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:18:35 +000
The Variety of Holy Spirit Possession: Considering Cohen’s Executive and Pathogenic Possession for the Pentecostal Context
- Authors: Jonathan Burrow-Branine
  Abstract: This article seeks to extend Emma Cohen’s cross-cultural categorization of spirit possession to the phenomena of Holy Spirit possession in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christian communities. Cohen argues that cross-culturally recurring features of spirit possession can be explained by evolved patterns in human cognition, and identifies a typology of executive possession and pathogenic possession. I show the usefulness of Cohen’s categorization through an analysis of Holy Spirit possession phenomena as reported in ethnographic studies of Pentecostalism in Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, and Ghana. By doing so, this article accomplishes several things. First, it draws the study of Pentecostal ritual into the wider study of the anthropology of religion. Second, since Cohen’s categorization offers a cognitive explanation for recurring patterns of spirit possession, this article may help explain patterned behaviors and beliefs concerning the activity of the Holy Spirit even in very diverse cultural contexts. Finally, Cohen’s concepts of executive and pathogenic possession broaden the discussion of Holy Spirit possession beyond moments of the initial baptism in the Holy Spirit to the continual presence and relationship that many Pentecostals maintain as the central focus of their religious experience.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:13:57 +000
“Going the Other Way Around”: Catholic Contributions to the Emerging Pentecostal Norm in Australia
- Authors: Mark Hutchinson
  Abstract: One of the really interesting things about current scholarship in the history of Pentecostalism is the way that generations interact reflexively. The trend, as we shall see in this paper, is away from the idea of Pentecostalism having one particular point of origin (in its first wave associated with Azusa Street, in its third with Dennis Bennett in California), through Pentecostalism as multicentred in origin but convergent in development (around constructive “myths” or “symbols” of Azusa Street or Van Nuys, or wherever), towards the view in the current generation of writers that Pentecostalism has been multicentred in origin and divergent in development. I would suggest that there is an active philosophical change, towards acceptance of the globe as one place rather than the nation as the basic framework for historical understanding. The example I use in this paper comes from my work on the origins of the Charismatic movement in Australia.
  PubDate: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:08:33 +000
Transnational Pentecostal Connections: an Australian Megachurch and a Brazilian Church in Australia
- Authors: Cristina Rocha
  Abstract: The paper analyses transnational flows of Pentecostalism between Australia and Brazil. It analyses the establishment of CNA, a Brazilian church that caters for the increasing number of Brazilian students in Sydney. It also investigates the ways in which Hillsong, an Australian Pentecostal megachurch, has influenced CNA and has been alluring young Pentecostal Brazilians to Australia. Scholars have paid little attention to how religious institutions in the host country may influence rituals and facilitate the establishment of the new church. I argue that churches created by migrants are not established in a deterritorialized diasporic vacuum. Reterritorialization engenders hybridity. Following an admiration for Australian churches due to Australia being part of the English-speaking developed world, CNA is a hybrid of a conservative Brazilian Baptist church and the very informal Hillsong church. I contend that it is precisely this hybridity that makes young Brazilians adhere to it since the church works as an effective bridge between Brazilian and Australian cultures. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates the polycentric nature of Pentecostalism, as Australia is becoming a centre for the dissemination of Hillsong-style Pentecostalism in Brazil.
  PubDate: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:07:52 +000