Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century

Robert W. Hefner is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University and author or editor of 17 books on religion and politics, including Shari'a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (IUP, 2011) and Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800.

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Unexpected Modern—Gender, Piety, and Politics in the Global Pentecostal Surge \ Robert W. Hefner1. Pentecostalism: An Alternative Form of Modernity and Modernization? \ David Martin2. The Future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: The Limits to Growth \ Paul Freston3. Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity \ David Maxwell4. Tensions and Trends in Pentecostal Gender and Family Relations \ Bernice Martin5. Gender, Modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China \ Nanlai Cao6. The Routinization of Soviet Pentecostalism and the Liberation of Charisma in Russia and Ukraine \ Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan7. Pentecost amid Pujas: Charismatic Christianity and Dalit Women in Twenty-First-Century India \ Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah8. Politics, Education, and Civic Participation: Catholic Charismatic Modernities in the Philippines \ Katharine L. WiegeleAfterword \ Peter L. BergerContributorsIndex

This edited volume offers the reader excellent coverage on a range of issues about the social, cultural, and political aspects of Pentecostalism. With contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, and religion scholars, the editor has brought together some of the top experts in the field with cases from most regions of the world including Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, Russia, Ukraine, India, and the Philippines.(Religious Studies Review) Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century is a valuable addition to the literature on a topic that was neglected by anthropologists for too long . . . it takes the pulse of an important field of research and begins to direct our gaze toward the futures of Pentecostalisms and to whatever new religious developments may come.(Anthropology Review Database)