Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America (Religion in America)

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The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says "When the Holy Spirit seized them . Organized around five thematic soundings (“worldly affairs”; “great questions”; “self and other”; “meeting modernity”; and “Evangelical culture”), the paper shows that premillennialism comported easily with socially elite status, liberal instincts, and irenic habits of mind not commonly associated with those holding similar beliefs in the decades after. This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. This dissertation charts the history of evangelical Christian influence in American criminal justice and prisons in the second half of the twentieth century. As Holy Jumpers demonstrates, Holiness Christians, and the MCA in particular, played a profoundly formative role in the development of modern evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity.

Sure, there wouldn't have been these results if these preachers were not facilitating something quite spectacular. Fogarty, Editor of The Antioch Review "American religious history is sometimes best understood from its margins. Again, I was very struck at the apparently immense impact that Knapp's death had on the trajectory of the movement.Known as "Burning Bushers," its members objected to capitalism, confronted "elite" denominations, and offered an alternative, radical vision of Christianity.

Hitchcock sent out every able bodied person to go door to door, not as evangelists, but as a sales force. Uniforms and slumwear allowed members, especially women, access to otherwise off-limits urban environments, prompting critics to question members’ motivations. Healing was a major part of the holiness movement at the turn of the century and we still believe in it on paper. Unlike much of the previous work on twentieth-century evangelicalism (particularly their influence in politics), this dissertation frames the movement not in terms of backlash or culture warring, but consensus. In a mere seventy-five days, an estimated 2,200 seekers sought salvation or sanctification at MCA altars" in Chicago in the revival of 1901 (63).In this groundbreaking book, William Kostlevy presents a fascinating study of the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), a religious community founded in Chicago in the early 1890s. Please help clean up the lists by removing items or incorporating them into the text of the article. That's about the only good thing I could see in this man, and that was despite his seeming vileness. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. And African Americans, both inside and outside the UMC, have found the issues of clergy and laity power strongly complicated as well by issues of racial power.

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