Reviewed by Aminta Arrington (John Brown University). In the 1880s, two missions administrators, one on each side of the Atlantic Ocean, simultaneously, yet independently, developed the indigenous principle (also called the three-self principle): that the goal of missions should be to create self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating churches
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Tarango, “Choosing the Jesus Way”
Tarango, Angela. 2014. Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle. Chapel Hill, NC: …
Brahinsky, “Cultivating Discontinuity”
Brahinsky, Josh. 2013. Cultivating Discontinuity: Pentecostal Pedagogies of Yielding and Control. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 44(4): 399-422. Abstract: Exploring missionary …
Brahinsky, Josh (2012) “Pentecostal Body Logics: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium”
Brahinsky, Josh. 2012. Pentecostal Body Logics: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium. Cultural Anthropology. 27(2):215-238. Abstract Pentecostals put intensive study into bodies, texts, …
Reimer, “Orthodoxy Niches”
Reimer, Sam (2011) “Orthodoxy Niches: Diversity in Congregational Orthodoxy Among Three Protestant Denominations in the United States” Journal for the …