A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action in North America

A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action in North America
ISBN-10
1608992837
ISBN-13
9781608992836
Category
Religion
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2010-09-13
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Authors
Steven M. Studebaker, Michael Wilkinson

Description

Recently, scholars of global Pentecostalism have proposed that the experience of the Spirit among Pentecostals has elicited the development of a Pentecostal "theology of liberation," which has implications for understanding Pentecostal responses to social issues. These projects primarily explore the Pentecostal response to cultural issues in areas outside of North America and especially focus on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This volume assesses whether the categories of social liberation applied to non-Western Pentecostalism characterize Pentecostalism in North America. Michael Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Religion in Canada Institute at Trinity Western University. His is the author of The Spirit Said Go (2006) and the editor of Canadian Pentecostalism (2009). Steven M. Studebaker is Assistant Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at McMaster Divinity College. He is the editor of Defining Issues in Pentecostal Theology (Pickwick, 2008).

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