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Author:   Robert W. Hefner ,  Peter L. Berger ,  David A. Martin ,  Paul Freston
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780253010865

ISBN 10:   0253010861
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Unexpected Modern—Gender, Piety, and Politics in the Global Pentecostal Surge \ Robert W. Hefner 1. Pentecostalism: An Alternative Form of Modernity and Modernization? \ David Martin 2. The Future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: The Limits to Growth \ Paul Freston 3. Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity \ David Maxwell 4. Tensions and Trends in Pentecostal Gender and Family Relations \ Bernice Martin 5. Gender, Modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China \ Nanlai Cao 6. The Routinization of Soviet Pentecostalism and the Liberation of Charisma in Russia and Ukraine \ Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan 7. Pentecost amid Pujas: Charismatic Christianity and Dalit Women in Twenty-First-Century India \ Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah 8. Politics, Education, and Civic Participation: Catholic Charismatic Modernities in the Philippines \ Katharine L. Wiegele Afterword \ Peter L. Berger Contributors Index

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<p> A valuable addition to the growing scholarship on Pentecostalism... [with] fresh ethnographic data on Pentecostalism in various settings --Elizabeth Brusco, Pacific Lutheran University--Elizabeth Brusco, Pacific Lutheran University

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Robert W. Hefner is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University and author or editor of 17 books on religion and politics, including Shari'a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (IUP, 2011) and Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800.

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