 | Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism by Steve Brouwer
Buy new: $41.95 / Used from: $6.99 Looks at "American hegemony" aspects of the movement; argues with David Martin
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 | God is Dead: Secularization in the West (Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World) by Steve Bruce
Buy new: $38.44 / Used from: $27.86 Argues that Charismatic movement has had little impact; internal secularisation
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 | New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, The by Ed van der Maas
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $26.19 Essential reference work
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 | The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion) by Simon Coleman
Buy new: $99.00 / Used from: $88.52 Theoretically sophisticated look at Charismatics in Sweden
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 | The Hallelujah Revolution by Cotton
Buy used from: $4.32 Looks at cultural and psychological aspects: impressive journalistic work
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 | The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing by Thomas J. Csordas
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $14.85 An academic look at Charismatic healing
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 | Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the 21st Century by Harvey Cox
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $4.63 Standard academic introduction
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 | American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty by Michael W. Cuneo
Buy used from: $9.50 Relates exorcism and deliverance to pop culture
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 | Biographical Dictionary of African-American, Holiness-Pentecostals: 1880-1990 by Sherry S. Dupree
Essential reference work
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 | Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia (Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion) by Paul Gifford
Buy new: $54.02 / Used from: $63.69 Has section on American "Faith Gospel" preachers popular in Africa
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 | African Christianity by Paul Gifford
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $12.93 Features analysis of the movement in Africa
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| Streams of renewal: The origins and early development of the charismatic movement in Great Britain by Peter Hocken
Buy used from: $11.00 Insider's popular history of the movement in the UK
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| The Pentecostals by Walter J Hollenweger
Buy used from: $50.00 The ur-text. Hollenweger has written many more books, but the field started here
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 | Charismania: When Christian Fundamentalism Goes Wrong by Roland Howard
Buy used from: $4.21 Journalistic polemic, describing the excesses
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 | Charismatic Christianity: Sociological Perspectives
Buy used from: $65.55 Solid academic guide to the subject
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| Pentecostals in Britain by William Kay
Buy used from: $133.20 Detailed history by an insider, but very rigorous. Sophisticated quantative and qualitative elements
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 | Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish (Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World) by David Martin
Buy new: $35.04 / Used from: $26.57 Summation of David Martin's work on the subject
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| Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America by David Martin
Buy used from: $5.34 David Martin's classic text
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 | Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium by Donald E. Miller
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $3.90 Sympathetic study of John Wimber and other "boomer" figures
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 | Ungodly Fear by Stephen Parsons
Buy used from: $5.10 Polemical, but full of details about deliverance, shepherding
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 | Words, Wonder & Power: Understanding Contemporary Christian Fundamentalism and Revivalism by Martyn Percy
Buy used from: $13.87 Theoretical but polemical account of John Wimber and Charismatic authoritarianism
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 | Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture (Studies in Comparative Religion)
Buy new: $33.16 / Used from: $28.19 An overview
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 | The Faith Healers by James Randi
Buy new: $23.38 / Used from: $9.87 Uncovers the tricks of several "healing evangelists". V. polemical
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| Charismatic Renewal by Thomas A. Smail
Buy used from: $16.04 Christian scholars consider the movement sympathetically but critically
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 | Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) by Jane E. Soothill
Buy new: $124.00 / Used from: $116.43 Fascinating analysis of women leaders in African mega-churches. Groundbreaking.
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