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Aimee Semple McPherson and the making of modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926 / Chas H. Barfoot.
Van Pelt Library BV3785.M28 B37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barfoot, Chas H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.
- McPherson, Aimee Semple.
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- Evangelists--United States--Biography.
- Evangelists.
- Pentecostal churches.
- History.
- Clergy.
- United States.
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel--Clergy--Biography.
- Pentecostal churches--United States--Clergy--Biography.
- Pentecostal churches--History.
- Pentecostalism--History.
- Pentecostalism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 640 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2011.
- Summary:
- Pentecostalism was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a rundown, semi-industrial area of Los Angeles composed of a tombstone shop, saloons, livery stables and railroad frieght yards. One hundred years later Pentecostalism has not only proven to be the most dynamic representative of Christian faith in the past century, but a transnational religious phenomenon as well. Aimee Semple McPherson was Pentecostalism's first celebrity. Arriving in Southern California with her mother, two children and $100 in 1920, she quickly achieved the height of her fame. In Los Angeles she became a folk hero and civic institution. Hollywood discovered her when she brilliantly united the sacred with the profane. Anthony Quinn would play in the Temple band and Aimee would baptize Marilyn Monroe, counsel Jean Harlow and become friends with Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
- Contents:
- An answered prayer : Aimee Elizabeth
- Romance and religion : Mrs. Robert Semple
- Going to Nineveh by way of Tarshish : a Pentecostal prophetess
- Tents and tabernacles : camping in Canaan's happy land
- Mother and daughter en route to the Promised Land
- Los Angeles
- Azusa Street and Aimee of the angels
- The beautiful woman in white
- Blurring boundaries and open doors
- Spiritual healing in American Protestantism : popular religious culture and high church culture
- Barnstorming America and building a house unto the Lord
- San Diego : the great jumping-off place
- Denver : awake beyond any city
- Northern California : Baptists and Congregationalists
- Rochester : "the most antagonistic city" and the burned-over district revisited
- Wichita : the middle road
- Oakland : the Interdenominational Foursquare Gospel
- Angelus Temple : multitudes and miracles
- New Protestant boundaries : salvaging Methodism and saving the mainline by purging Pentecostalism and pushing it to the periphery
- May 18, 1926
- Resurrection in Arizona
- Epilogue: Testimony, people's religion, and the search for spirituality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-616) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1845531663
- 9781845531669
- OCLC:
- 314379453
- Publisher Number:
- 99943843582
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