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Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (October 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631231218
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631231219
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsStill the road to the middle class
By Christopher Chantrill on June 27, 2002
Format: Paperback
Ten years ago in 'Tongues of Fire' David Martin introduced educated readers to the astonishing explosion of Pentecostalism in Latin America. Now he updates the story with fieldwork done by his proteges and others in the 1990s. And he shows how Pentecostalism is burgeoning in Africa, Korea, and China. It's simple really. Enthusiastic Christianity is still the best bridge between the instinctive, fatalistic life on the land and the directed, purposeful life in the city.
This is an important book for anyone trying to grasp the meaning and the future of religion in the modern world. See also Steve Bruce 'God is Dead' and Stark & Finke, 'Acts of Faith' for opposing views on the vigor of religion in the west.
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1.0 out of 5 starsHard to read, no structure, summary of scholarly work.
By Pen Name on December 13, 2013
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Unless you are looking for a scholarly work that summarizes sociological studies on Pentecostalism, this book is probably not for you. First, his writing style is unnecessarily difficult. "There are even more difficult issues to be canvassed than nomenclature and categorization, which have to do with models of secularization." Second, he spends more time than necessary talking about Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses in Latin America (not sure what these have to do with Pentecostalism). Finally, because of the unstructured nature of the book you end up receiving a lot of different facts from various sociological studies but don't have a very unified view of what is really going on in the world.

All in all, this book was disappointing. It seems like a condensed version of a much bigger work Martin is working on, and is not very helpful unless you are looking from the summary of the (now dated) literature on different continents.
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2.0 out of 5 starsThis book is not good. If you are looking for a better book ...
By Michael Samuel Sterns on April 13, 2015
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This book is not good. If you are looking for a better book on Pentecostalism check out Robeck's The Azusa Street Mission and Revival. Just as much history, sociology, cultural, etc...but it is actually written well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat read!
By John E. Fincher on October 27, 2015
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Interesting secular study of Pentecostalism. Does not address the growing phenomenon of Apostolic (Oness) Pentecostalism.
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