Blood and Fire Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
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Biographical note
Margaret M. Poloma is Professor Emeritus at the University of Akron. She is the author of many books, including Main Street Mystics,and (with Ralph W. Hood, Jr.) Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church (NYU Press, 2008). Ralph Hood, Jr., is Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He is the co-author of The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism; The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach; and Measures of Religiosity; and editor of The Handbook of Religious Experience.An exceptional book in that it tells the story of the failure of a faith-based movement rather than its success. In a richly textured narrative, the authors describe the limitations of religious charisma when it confronts the harsh reality of a business-minded board that requires accountability. This book is fascinating reading for anyone who wants to understand the interplay between spirit and flesh, vision and economic reality.
- Donald E. Miller,Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California,
Useful to those interested in the emerging church movement and Protestant charismatics.
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This work will be useful to those interested in the emerging church movement and Protestant charismatics. The church's trajectorywhich ended before the fieldwork study was overwill also engage those interested in studying the at-times messy intertwining of religious institutions, prophetic leadership, and supernaturally focused practices.
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