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Author:   Gastón Espinosa
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780822356356

ISBN 10:   082235635
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   11 August 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword xiii Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi Timeline xxiii Introduction. Definitions and 100 Years of Historiography on Seymour 1 Part I. Biography 1. American Pentecostal Origins: Parham and Seymour 41 3. Moses and Mecca: Seymour, Azusa, and Global Origins 69 4. God Makes No Difference in Color: Azusa's Transgressive Social Space 96 5. Wrecking the Spirit of Azusa: Grumbling and the Road to Decline 109 6. Race War in the Churches: Promoting Peace by Taking the Initiative 126 7. We Don't Believe in Relics: Seymour in Ignominy 143 Conclusion. Holy Restlessness and Cracking Bottles 149 Part II. Documentary History of William J. Seymour, The Azusa Street Revival, and Global Pentecostal Origins A. Seymour's Spiritual Writings from the Apostolic Faith, 1906-08 161 B. Seymour's Doctrines and Discipline Minister's Manual (1915) 216 C. Azusa Street Revival Accounts in the Apostolic Faith, 1906-08 301 D. Historical Overviews and Testimonies of Seymour and the Azusa Revival 309 E. Critics of Seymour and the Revival 372 F. Writings of Charles Fox Parham 380 Notes 389 Bibliography 411 Index 429

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The life story of black Pentecostal founder William J. Seymour is complex, ironic, engrossing, and little known, except among a small circle of scholars. Given the vast expansion of global Pentecostalism in recent decades, there has been a need for a new and thorough investigation of Pentecostal origins, one that reckons with both Charles Parham and William J. Seymour, the white and black pioneers of Pentecostalism who had a conflicted and, in many ways, tragic relationship with one another. Gaston Espinosa has put together the book we need, directly and judiciously addressing the conflict between Parham and Seymour. --Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University

This book marks a watershed in scholarship about the origins and early spread of Pentecostal faith and fire around the world. Gaston Espinosa's illuminating historical portrait of the one eyed preacher and spiritual giant, William J. Seymour is joined to an invaluable documentary history of theological topics and the drama of the Asuza Street revival movement. Espinosa has presented a truly multi-cultural portrait with early testimonies from Mexican, African, Middle Eastern, U.S. and European voices. Not by might but by Espinosa's deep historical work and balanced insights will readers come to grasp the fuller human story of this twentieth century reformation story. --Dav d Carrasco, author of The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

Author Information

GastÓn Espinosa is Arthur V. Stoughton Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action and editor of Religion, Race, and Barack Obama's New Democratic Pluralism and Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture, which is also published by Duke University Press.

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