Pentecostal Politics in a Secular World

The Life and Leadership of Lewi Pethrus
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-47050-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies

This book investigates the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus, a monumental figure in Swedish and international Pentecostalism. Joel Halldorf describes Pethrus’ role in the emergence of Pentecostalism in Sweden, the ideals and practices of Swedish Pentecostalism, and the movement’s turn to professional party politics.

When Pentecostals in the USA ventured into politics, they became allied with the Republican party, and later Donald Trump. The Swedish Pentecostals took another route: while culturally conservative, they embraced the progressive economic politics of the Social Democratic party. During the 2010s, they have also rejected the nationalism of the growing populist movement. Halldorf analyzes and explains these differences between Swedish evangelicals and Pentecostals on the one hand, and the Religious Right in the USA on the other.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halldorf, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Life Bent Towards Politics.- 2. Born and Born Again: The Making of a Counter-Cultural Identity.- 3. Visions of The Polis: From Denominational Bureaucracy to Spiritual Community.- 4. The Capital of Power: Charisma, Friendship, and Institutions.- 5. Escaping the Iron Cage: Pentecostalism and the Malaise of Modernity.- 6. Flirting with Fanaticism: Ecstasy, Authenticity, and Middle-Class Respectability.- 7. Lonely at the Top: The Cost of Leadership.- 8. All About the Money? Saving Souls or Funding CEOs.- 9. Church Politics for Revivalism: How to contain Latter Rain.- 10. Mission In Modernity: Large-Scale Projects and Episcopal Structures.- 11. Dreaming of a Christian Nation: Pentecostal Party Politics.- 12. Epilogue: Swedish Evangelicalism and the American Religious Right (Or: Why Swedish Pentecostals Are Not Trumpists).

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Halldorf is Associate Professor at the University College Stockholm and docent in Church history at Uppsala University. He is a regular contributor to several newspapers and magazines in Sweden.