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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2022

Spalte:

762–763

Kategorie:

Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde

Autor/Hrsg.:

Rocha, Cristina, Hutchinson, Mark P., and Kathleen Openshaw[Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Arguments from the Margins.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2020. XVI, 304 S. = Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 36. Kart. EUR 57,00. ISBN 9789004425781.

Rezensent:

John G. Flett

This collection of essays, the result of a 2017 symposium, is organised around a twofold claim. First, it questions the common reliance of Pentecostal historiographies on ›point of origin‹ mythologies. Such »reductionist tendencies,« the text argues, appear more interested in confirming imperialist stories, and infer that Australian Pentecos-talism is derivative of an American experience and privatized and individualised in form. The work, second, complexifies Australian Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Questioning these origin stories permits rethinking the tributaries informing the roots and international flows of (Australian) Pentecostalism. The introductory essay, for example, credits primitivism and liturgical renewal, prophetic/millennialist movements, healing movements, ...


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