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Bialecki, Jon. 2017. A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement.

Reviewed by Timothy Carroll (University College, London). In A Diagram for Fire, Jon Bialecki draws upon his ethnographic field research amongst Vineyard churches – principally in Southern California – to lay the groundwork for ‘a kind of commonality’ (p. xviii) not only ...

Haynes, Naomi. 2016. Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

Reviewed by Casey Golomski (University of New Hampshire). The key values Haynes describes in her innovative book about Pentecostals in a Zambian town are “moving” (ukusela in Bemba) and “moving by the spirit.” Moving means to be visibly, recognizably improving one’s ...

Meneses, Eloise and David Bronkema, eds. 2017. On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology

Reviewed by Leanne Williams Green (University of California, San Diego). On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology contributes to several current projects and proposals in which the disciplines of anthropology and theology engage one ...

Bruner, Jason. 2017. Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda

Reviewed by Emma Wild-Wood (University of Edinburgh). Since its beginnings in the 1930s the East African Revival has had a lasting influence on the religious culture of the region. It began in Uganda and Rwanda as a lively, internal critique to the orderly and hierarchical ...

Lauterbach, Karen. 2017. Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana

Reviewed by Girish Daswani (University of Toronto). In an important thesis published in 1998, Birgit Meyer showed how making a ‘complete break with the past’ had become a central concern for Ghanaian Pentecostals. Five years later, Joel Robbins’ (2003) piece on ...
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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
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