Getting the Holy Ghost : urban ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal tongue-speaking church / Peter Marina

Author: Marina, Peter, 1976-
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Copyright Date: ©2013
Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

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Contents

Brief overview of global Pentecostalism -- Brownsville, Brooklyn -- Holy Ghost Church organizational structure -- Main characters -- Pentecostal scene and its music -- Becoming a God hunter -- Getting saved -- Speaking in tongues -- Future of the black tongue speaking church -- Individual consequences to becoming Pentecostal.

Summary

Getting the Holy Ghost is an ethnography that examines a small, African-American Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, NY. Using personal stories, the book focuses on the individual process of becoming Pentecostal while challenging important concepts like crisis to explain the process where individuals become tongue-speakers. The book explores new concepts like "God-Hunting" and "Holy Ghost Capital" and asserts that the small Pentecostal Church is better able to retain the charisma that sparked the religious movement.

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9780739170748 ebook
0739170740
9780739170731 cloth : alk. paper
9780739170748 electronic
0739170732
9781299316195
1299316190
9781498503563
149850356X

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-303) and index.

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