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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420930003321

Autore

Halldorf Joel <1980->

Titolo

Pentecostal politics in a secular world : the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus / / Joel Halldorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-47051-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 pages)

Collana

Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies, , 2634-5854

Disciplina

287.6092

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Soggetti

Pentecostal churches - Political activity

Pentecostals - Sweden

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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.