A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and theological approaches, resulting in a multidisciplinary analysis of a global phenomenon.
Contents
Introduction: Interconnection, Interface, and Identification in Pentecostal-Charismatic Music and Worship | Monique M. Ingalls
Part I: Healing, Renewal, and Revitalization
1 Musical Bodies in the Charismatic Renewal: 1 The Case of Catch the Fire and Soaking Prayer | Peter Althouse and Michael Wilkinson
2 Salvation (Not Yet?) Materialized: Healing as Possibility and Possible Complication for Expressing Suffering in Pentecostal Music and Worship | Andrew M. McCoy
3 Dreaming Urban Indigenous Australian Christian Worship in the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit | Tanya Riches
4 Every Creative Aspect Breaking Out! Pentecostal-Charismatic Worship, Oro Gospel Music, and a Millennialist Aesthetic in Papua New Guinea | Michael Webb
5 Worship Music as Aesthetic Domain of Meaning and Bonding: The Glocal Context of a Dutch Pentecostal Church | Miranda Klaver
Part II: Negotiating Traditions in Transition
6 “This Is Not the Warm-Up Act!”: How Praise and Worship Reflects Expanding Musical Traditions and Theology in a Bapticostal Charismatic African American Megachurch | Birgitta J. Johnson
7 Singing the Lord’s Song in the Spirit and with Understanding: The Practice of Nairobi Pentecostal Church | Jean Ngoya Kidula
8 “Soaking Songs” Versus “Medicine Man Chant”: Musical Resonance Among Diné Oodlání (Navajo Believers) | 148 Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
9 “We Can Be Renewed”: Resistance and Worship at the Anchor Fellowship | Andrew Mall
10 Hillsong Abroad: Tracing the Songlines of Contemporary Pentecostal Music | Mark Evans
Part III: Media, Culture, and the Marketplace
11 Charismatic Music and the Pentecostalization of Latin American Evangelicalism | Ryan R. Gladwin
12 Blessed to Be a Blessing: The Prosperity Gospel of Worship Music Superstar Israel Houghton | Wen Reagan
13 Music, Culture Industry, and the Shaping of Charismatic Worship: An Autobiographical/Conversational Engagement | Dave Perkins
14 We Can’t Go Back: Liturgies of Worship and Consumer Culture at One African American Church | Will Boone
15 Gospel Funk: Pentecostalism, Music, and Popular Culture in Rio de Janeiro | Martijn Oosterbaan
Conclusion: Improvisation, Indigenization, and Inspiration: Theological Reflections on the Sound and Spirit of Global Renewal | Amos Yong
List of Contributors
Index
“In view of the enormous impact of Pentecostal-Charismatic worship on worship renewal, this book offers a long overdue multi-disciplinary perspective on the role of music in Pentecostal-Charismatic worship. . . . This book belongs on the shelf of any musician and theologian who wants to understand seriously the manifold dynamics of music in contemporary worship.”
—Daniel Dangendorf, Evangelical Review of Theology
