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The New York Times Notable Book about the fastest-growing form of worship on earth: the vibrant, primal spirituality of Pentecostalism. It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.
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With the end of slavery in the U.S.A., most Black Christians set up their own churches, and later some of these churches gave birth to the massive Pentecostal movement, which deeply influenced many white churches and swept over much of the world. Cox traces this growing movement down the decades and over several continents. He deals in stories of seemingly ordinary people who caught a passion for breaking down walls between hearts. Many of these are women, such Lucy Farrow, Marie Burgess, Florence Crawford, Maria Woodworth-Etter, or Aimee Semple McPherson, who walked out of a church which could not respect her gifts, and built her independent Church of the Four Square Gospel in the 1920s, which had over 25,000 affiliated churches in 74 countries by the 1990s.
The movement Cox describes is different in spirit than fundamentalism. Though it is subject to corrupt leaders or cheap commercialization, it is also full of local heroes like evangelical politician Benedita da Silva, who stresses Jesus' promise to the slum dwellers of Rio de Janeiro: "Imagine, we will do greater things than he did". (p. 166) In all, Cox gives a report which is properly respectful for the power and magnitude of popular religion, made down home in local people's hearts.
The movement Cox describes is different in spirit than fundamentalism. Though it is subject to corrupt leaders or cheap commercialization, it is also full of local heroes like evangelical politician Benedita da Silva, who stresses Jesus' promise to the slum dwellers of Rio de Janeiro: "Imagine, we will do greater things than he did". (p. 166) In all, Cox gives a report which is properly respectful for the power and magnitude of popular religion, made down home in local people's hearts.
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I highly value this book mainly for three reasons. First this is the first and only significant research on the Pentecostal spiritulality so far paublished. Based on his own "fileld work" method, the author both encourages and warns concerning the future of the spiritual movement. Secondly he is keenly aware that the movement has potential power to overcome racial discrimination (at least in its origin).Thirdly as myself one of the tongue-speaking people in Japan, I agree with the author who envisages this spiritual movement will eventualy develope into various types of Christianity and will enrich the general trend of world religions.
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