Black fire : one hundred years of African American Pentecostalism
Title:
Black fire : one hundred years of African American Pentecostalism
Author:
Alexander, Estrelda, 1949-
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Publication Information:
Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
406 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
Estrelda Alexander was raised "in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s", but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered that many Christians not only knew little of her heritage but considered it strange. Even today, most North Americans remain ignorant of black Pentecostalism. Black Fire remedies a lack of historical consciousness by recounting the story of African American Pentecostal origins and development.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- "Every time I feel the Spirit": Pentecostal retentions from African spirituality -- Saved and sanctified: The legacy of the nineteenth-century black holiness movement -- The color line was washed away in the blood: William J. Seymour and the Azusa street revival -- What hath God wrought: The rise of African American trinitarian pentacostal denominations -- God and Christ are one: The rise and development of black oneness pentecostalism -- Singing the Lord's song in a strange land: Blacks in white pentecostal denominations -- If it wasn't for the women: Women's leadership in African American pentecostalism -- I will do a new thing: African American neo-pentecostals and charismatic movements -- Conclusion: Historical realities and theological challenges of African American pentecostalism into the twenty-first century.
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ISBN:
9780830825868
Format :
Book
