Holy Jumpers

Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-537784-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Religion in America

Research based on the previously unavailable papers of the Metropolitan Church Association
Fills an important gap in the history of American Pentecostalism

Between 1890 and 1917 thousands of lower middle class Americans rejected private property and joined communal religious societies from Maine to Washington. They were part of the radical holiness movement, the forerunners of today's Pentecostals. Yet groups like these have been ignored in histories of Pentecostalism, which trace ist origins to the Azusa Street revival of 1905, thus overlooking the groups from which that revival sprung. In this book, William Kostlevy uncovers this forgotten chapter of American religious history by telling the story of one of the most important of these radical communal societies, the Metropolitan Church Association. Known as "Burning Bushers," after their acerbic publication, they challenged the values of late-Victorian America. They objected to capitalism, confronted "elite" denominations, and offered an alternative, radical vision of Christianity. The roots of Pentecostalism, Kostlevy shows, are far more radical than the movement's present conservatism suggests.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of American religious history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kostlevy, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Introduction Variations of Holiness Radicalism in Progressive Era America
1.: Martin Wells Knapp and the Origins of the Radical Holiness Movement
2.: Marching the Pearly White City: The Birth of the Metropolitan Methodist Mission
3.: Pentecost Comes to the White City: The Chicago Revival and the General Holiness Assembly of 1901
4.: The Pentecostal Dancers Invade Boston
5.: "A Standard for the People": The Burning Bush Movement and the Organization of Mission in the MCA
6.: "Forsaking All for Jesus:" F. M. Messenger and Burning Bush Communalism
7.: The MCA and the Making of Modern American Religious Culture
8.: The Fire Wanes and Is Rekindled: The Burning Bush Movement, 1913-1931
Afterword
End Notes
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

William Kostlevy, Associate Professor of History and Political Scien, Tabor College