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Review of Melissa L. Archer. 'I Was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day:' A Pentecostal Engagement with Worship in the Apocalypse
Get PDFNotes From the Archives: Preserving Sister Aimee's Story The Foursquare Heritage Archives
Get PDFAfter the 2016 meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in San Dimas, California, the Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity editors agreed that a feature in our continuing "Notes from the Archives" series focusing on the Foursquare Heritage Archives would be of great interest to the journal's readers. Linda Ambrose corresponded with Foursquare Archivist Steve Zeleny, and what follows is a result of their exchange
The Birth of the Foursquare Gospel in Canada: Tracing the Roots of the First Foursquare Church in Vancouver, Canada
Get PDFThis essay traces the pre-history of Vancouver’s Foursquare Gospel Lighthouse (now the Kingsway Foursquare Church in Burnaby, Canada) founded in September 1927 by Anna D. Britton. As the first Foursquare Gospel Church in Canada, this congregation played a pivotal role in establishing the work of Aimee Semple McPherson’s International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Canada
Review of Simon Coleman and Rosalind I.J. Hackett, eds. The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism.
No full textAuthor Meets Critics: Reflections on Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
No full textThe remarks of three reviewers concerning Leah Payne's award-winning book, Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry, were intially presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in San Dimas, California in March 2016. The piece concludes with Payne’s reply to the resviewers, and a call to continue the important work of studying Pentecostalism through the lens of gender studies
Review of Peter Hocken, Azusa, Rome, and Zion: Pentecostal Faith, Catholic Reform, and Jewish Faith.
No full textScandal and Censure: A Reinvestigation of the Socio-Political Forces Surrounding the Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
Get PDFAbstractThis paper sets the oft-told narrative of McPherson’s disappearance and alleged sexual misconduct into important aspects of the historical context of her era. Although the accusations against the evangelist were widely embraced by the Pentecostal community—and although they continue to exhibit a shaping effect upon her legacy and legend—this paper uses primary historical research to reexamine these events through the lens of emerging, powerful cultural forces, including entrenched female biases common in the post-Victorian era, the ascendance of the American mob, the public’s rejection of prohibition and revulsion against the Women’s Temperance Union and recent Suffragist gains, and the desire of the religious establishment to censure McPherson for casting off role assignment proclivities. This paper will revisit the story and provide a theory that offers compelling, unexplored evidence that connects these events in McPherson’s life with the rowdy and colorfully distinctive characteristics of her time
