Brill's Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online
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Subject: Religious Studies
Executive Editor: Michael Wilkinson
Associate Editors: Connie Au, Jörg Haustein, Todd M. Johnson
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online (BEGP) provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide Pentecostalism from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It offers analysis at the level of specific countries and regions, historical figures, movements and organizations, and particular topics and themes. Pentecostal Studies draws upon areas of research such as anthropology, biblical studies, economics, gender studies, global studies, history, political science, sociology, theological studies, and other areas of related interest. The BEGP emphasizes this multi-disciplinary approach and includes scholarship from a range of disciplines, methods, and theoretical perspectives. Moreover, the BEGP is cross-cultural and transnational, including contributors from around the world to represent key insights on Pentecostalism from a range of countries and regions.
Providing summaries of the key literature, the BEGP will be the standard reference for Pentecostal Studies. All articles are fully text searchable and cross-referenced, with bibliographic information on scholarly work and recommendations for further reading.
For more information: see Brill.com
Associate Editors: Connie Au, Jörg Haustein, Todd M. Johnson
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online (BEGP) provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide Pentecostalism from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It offers analysis at the level of specific countries and regions, historical figures, movements and organizations, and particular topics and themes. Pentecostal Studies draws upon areas of research such as anthropology, biblical studies, economics, gender studies, global studies, history, political science, sociology, theological studies, and other areas of related interest. The BEGP emphasizes this multi-disciplinary approach and includes scholarship from a range of disciplines, methods, and theoretical perspectives. Moreover, the BEGP is cross-cultural and transnational, including contributors from around the world to represent key insights on Pentecostalism from a range of countries and regions.
Providing summaries of the key literature, the BEGP will be the standard reference for Pentecostal Studies. All articles are fully text searchable and cross-referenced, with bibliographic information on scholarly work and recommendations for further reading.
For more information: see Brill.com
The Indonesian Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches (Persekutuan Gereja-gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia)
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Persekutuan Gereja-gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia (PGPI) is an organization of Pentecostal denominations that cooperate to represent Pentecostal interests on public issues with the government. The development of the PGPI is largely related to the history of the Pentecostal movement in Indonesia. The beginnings of the pentecostal movement in Indonesia can be traced to the efforts of a number of people including Gerrit R. Polman, an early Pentecostal leader of Dutch origins in Indonesia around 1910. In 1911, prayer meetings were conducted by H.E. Horstman of the
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Date:
2021-07-16
Theology
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Pentecostal theology emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century as a revivalist ideology focused on a transformative experience of Jesus Christ through a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit and has since then developed toward doctrinal and systematic formulations with attention to a wide range of theological, spiritual, ethical, sociocultural, philosophical, economic, and political concerns (Yong 2005). The debate on the character of Pentecostal theology shows a number of critical con…
Date:
2021-07-16