Aimee Semple McPherson and the making of modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926
By: Chas H. Barfoot.
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781845531669
Subjects: McPherson, Aimee Semple, -- 1890-1944; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel -- Clergy -- Biography; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; Pentecostal churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography; Pentecostal churches -- History; Pentecostalism -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: Aimee Semple McPherson was Pentecostalism's first celebrity, its "female Billy Sunday." Based on the biographer's access to internal church documents and cooperation of Aimee's family and friends, this biography offers a sympathetic appraisal of her rise to fame, revivals in major cities and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. The biographer takes the reader behind the scenes of Aimee's fame to the early days of her harsh apprenticeship in revival tents, her failed marriages, and poverty. Barfoot recreates the career of this "called" and driven woman through oral history, church documents and by a creative use of new source material. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An answered prayer : Aimee Elizabeth; title: Romance and religion : Mrs. Robert Semple; title: Going to Nineveh by way of Tarshish : a Pentecostal prophetess; title: Tents and tabernacles : camping in Canaan's happy land; title: Mother and daughter en route to the Promised Land; title: Los Angeles; title: Azusa Street and Aimee of the Angels; title: The beautiful woman in white; title: Blurring boundaries and open doors; title: Spiritual healing in American Protestantism : popular religious culture and high church culture; title: Barnstorming America and building a house unto the Lord; title: San Diego : the great jumping off place; title: Denver : awake beyond any city; title: Northern California : Baptists and Congregationalists; title: Rochester : the most antagonistic city and the burned-over district re-visited; title: Wichita : the middle road; title: Oakland : the Interdenominational foursquare gospel; title: Angelus Temple : multitudes and miracles; title: New Protestant boundaries : salvaging Methodism and saving the mainline by purging Pentecostalism and pushing it to the periphery; title: May 18, 1926 : an evangelist drowns; title: Epilogue: Resurrection in Arizona.; title: Afterword : Testimony, people's religion, and the search for spirituality