Pentecostalism

is one of many black women preachers within Pentecostalism, a religious tradition that traces its origins to the Azusa Street Revival of 1906. The Revival is noted for its interracial attendance with dominant narratives suggesting that historically Pentecostalism has valued both racial and gender egalitarianism (Alexander and Young 2009). Thus, scholarship focused on Pentecostalism typically hones in on the egalitarian aspect of this religious tradition, complicating the validity of this sentiment. As research from feminist religious scholar Lisa Stephenson demonstrates that early twentieth century Pentecostal publications and teachings promoted biblical notions of the inferiority of women to men. Yet, others…

This does not mean that there are not some similarities, but that within the similarities are differences that distinguish Pentecostalism creating tension with main stream Protestantism and creating a distinct stream within the Christian tradition. Pentecostalism has undergone three distinctive waves that each have increased the influence of the charismatic movement on Protestantism. Each movement further legitimized Pentecostalism and forced mainstream Protestantism and Christianity to take…

by European immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, Pentecostals represent the most popular and growing sector of Protestantism in Guatemala and Latin America in whole. Religion has played a significant role in shaping Guatemalan culture and gender beliefs. In Guatemala, women see Pentecostal churches as agents of change. The Pentecostal churches empower their female church members, supports them and allow them to play leadership roles in churches. These women reciprocate by…

Pentecostalism is not a church in itself, but it is a movement that includes many different churches incorporating the gifts of the Holy Spirit as a normal part of the “Full Gospel”. The Pentacostal movement began around 1901, a time when church officials declared that the church had gotten way from the bible being understood in a literal sense and started believing the Word of God to be taken in a figurative sense, instead. Freeonlinebible.org states that upon its emerging in the early…

“The Holy Spirit and The Early Church in The Book of Acts: The Global Mission of the Messianic Community” in The Holy Spirit: An Unfinished Agenda, (Word N Works, Singapore, 2014). “Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Retrospect and Prospect” in Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader, Lee Roy Martin, ed. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013). “Hermeneutics” in Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, Adam Stewart, ed. (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012). “The Fivefold Gospel and the Mission of the…

Radical religion is very prominent in todays world, and in most cases it isn’t a well-liked branch of the religion itself. When talked about in the readings such as “Wheels in the Head” and from our discussions in class, we discuss about private and public schools but such can be flipped for religions. Jesus camp is an example of that and the documentary is exactly on that, a radical religious group. The documentary is focused on a evangelical christian church in the midwest that runs a camp for…

strongly, these markers themselves are already raced, meaning that their very “power to mean” is coextensive with racialized identity and perception. I begin by recalling Higginbotham’s watershed essay because it calibrates a parallel argument I would like to make regarding the metalanguage of race in early Pentecostal theology. The signal relationship between Charles Parham and William Seymour is rightly rehearsed in many hagiographies and histories of early Pentecostalism. Genealogical…

is regarded as a highly desirable “gift of the Spirit” that is accessible to anyone who is a “child of God” (i.e., who has repented). ...They say that they remember speaking in tongues, but do not remember what they said.” Or, going further in the same vein, (Jeremiah, 2015) in quoting Dr. Goodman and her research including extensive linguistic analysis she found a shocking finding to some. “they do not speak in other human languages, and when speaking in the “heavenly language,”…

My philosophy of religion and my philosophy of philosophy are marginally diverse than the way people may evaluate religion, before I share my thoughts, allow me to provide you some background of my life. Being born at the end of the 60’s and the turn of a new decade, gone were the flower power days and enter soul power, power to the people, and the Black and I’m proud movement. The ethnic temperature of that period remained extremely hot in the nation while growing up in North Philadelphia. My…

Pentecostal history is rich which many occurrences in history. Many are familiar with the revivals that have taken place as well as some of the challenges that have faced the saints of this time. There are even moments that new denominations came forth from the desire to articulate the Gospel and just what was going on during that time in America where it was believed that the Spirit was moving among the people. One such denomination is the Assemblies of God. This denomination will be the focus.…