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It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible-and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality-a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: The Little Church and the Big City | 3 | |
| 1 | Millennium Approaches | 19 |
| 2 | The Fire Falls in Los Angeles | 45 |
| 3 | The Fire Spreads | 67 |
| 4 | Another Voice: The Recovery of Primal Speech | 81 |
| 5 | Signs and Wonders: The Recovery of Primal Piety | 99 |
| 6 | The Future Present: The Recovery of Primal Hope | 111 |
| 7 | "Your Daughters Shall Prophesy" | 123 |
| 8 | "Music Brought Me to Jesus" | 139 |
| 9 | "We Shall Do Greater Things": Pentecostalism in Latin America | 161 |
| 10 | Sibyls and Madonnas: Reclaiming Archaic Spirituality in Europe | 185 |
| 11 | Shamans and Entrepreneurs: Primal Spirituality on the Asian Rim | 213 |
| 12 | Healers and Ecologists: Primal Spirituality in Black Africa | 243 |
| 13 | Pentecostalism In America: "Whose Report Do You Believe?" | 263 |
| 14 | Pentecostalism in America: Body Snatchers and Spiritual Warriors | 281 |
| 15 | The Liberating Spirit | 299 |
| Bibliographical Notes | 323 | |
| Index | 333 |
Overview
It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible-and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has ...