Winter 2016/Pasadena

CH547/847

Robeck

CH547/847: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PENTECOSTAL & CHARISMATIC MOVEMENTS (4/6 Units: 160/355 hours). Cecil M. Robeck Jr.


DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to introduce students to the history of the various Pentecostal, Charismatic, and related global “Movements of the Spirit.” Students will be guided in discussions related to a number of historiographical, theological, sociological, anthropological, and psychological concerns. The establishment of sources for the study of these movements, as well as issues that range from primitivism, restorationism, and independence to institutionalization and ecumenism will be covered.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This course should enable students (1) to gain a sense of the current historiographic discussions, (2) to identify historiographic resources, (3) to identify and define the nature of various Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, (4) to identify some of the more important relevant themes in these movements, and (5) to understand some of the more important regional developments.

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once or twice weekly for two hour sessions for a total of 36 instructional hours in the classroom for lecture, discussion, and presentations. Students will also be expected to participate in a day-long tour (8 hours) of early Pentecostal sites in Los Angeles. Classroom and Tour participation will provide 40 instructional hours. Further instructions may be found in the syllabus.

REQUIRED READING: MA and MDiv students are expected to read approximately 1500 pages. PhD students are expected to read approximately 3000 pages. All students will receive a bibliography of about 400 pages. The bibliography will be broken down into a wide range of historical, theological, and developmental topics. Allan Anderson, et. al. Studying Global Pentecostalism is required of PhD students only.

Anderson, Allan. An Introduction to Pentecostalism. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1107660946, Pub. Price $29.99 [325 pp.].

*Anderson, Allan, Michael Bergunder, André Droogers, Cornelis van der Laan, Eds. Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods. University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0520266629, Pub. Price $27.95 [307 pp.]. (required of PHD students only).

Miller, Donald E., and Tetsunao Yamamori. Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0520251946, Pub. Price $31.95 [224 pp.].

Robeck, Cecil M., Jr. and Amos Yong, Eds. The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0521188388, Pub. Price $29.99 [320 pp.].

*PhD students are expected to read this book.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Alexander, Estrelda Y. Black Fire: 100 Years of African American Pentecostalism. InterVarsity Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0830825868, Pub. Price $30.00 [395 pp.].

Alexander, Estrelda Y. Ed. Black Fire Reader: A Documentary Resource on African American Pentecostalism. Cascade Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1608995622, Pub. Price $28.00 [233 pp.].

Allan Anderson and Edmond Tang, Eds. Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia. Wipf & Stock, rpt. 2011. ISBN; 978-1610979177, Pub. Price $60.00 [592 pp.].

Anderson, Allan Heaton. To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0195386424, Pub. Price $26.95 [257 pp.].

Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena, Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context Wipf & Stock, 2013. ISBN 978-1620328989, Pub. Price $27.95 [183 pp.].

Burgess, Stanley M., ed. The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Zondervan, 2002. ISBN: 978-0310224815, Pub. Price $49.99 [1234 pp.].

Espinosa, Gastón, Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0674738875, Pub. Price $29.95 [418 pp.].

Espinosa, Gastón, William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary History Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0822356356, Pub. Price $28.95 [387 pp.].

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley. From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church. Eerdmans, 2013. ISBN 978-0802869685, Pub. Price $20.00 [161 pp.].

**Kay William K. and Anne E. Dyer, Eds. European Pentecostalism. Brill, 2011. ISBN: 978-9004207301, Pub. Price $150.00 [401 pp.].

**Lindhardt, Martin, Ed. Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies. Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978-9004281868, Pub. Price $84.00 [381 pp.].

Miller, Donald E., Kimon H. Sargeant, and Richard Flory, Eds. Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199920594, Pub. Price $31.95 [374 pp.].

Robeck, Cecil M., Jr. The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement. Thomas Nelson, 2006. ISBN: 978-1418506247, Pub. Price $16.99 [325 pp.].

**Smith, Calvin L. Ed. Pentecostal Power: Expressions, Impact and Faith of Latin American Pentecostalism. Brill, 2011. ISBN: 978-9004192492, Pub. Price $145.00 [278 pp.].

**Währisch-Oblau, Claudia. The Missionary Self-Perception of Pentecostal Charismatic Church leaders from the Global South in Europe. Brill, 2009. ISBN: 978-9004228306, Pub. Price $48.00 [407 pp.].

Vondey, Wolfgang, Ed. Pentecostals and Christian Unity: Ecumenical Documents and Critical Assessments. Pickwick Publications, 2010. ISBN: 978-1608990111, Pub. Price $33.00 [268 pp.].

Vondey, Wolfgang, Ed. Pentecostals and Christian Unity: Continuing and Building Relationships. Pickwick Publications, 2013. ISBN: 978-1620327180, Pub. Price $34.00 [294 pp.].

Yong, Amos and Estrelda Y. Alexander, Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture. New York University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0814797310, Pub. Price $29.95 [247 pp.].

**The Fuller Bookstore is not expected to have these in stock. They will be available, however, in the Library.

ARTICLES:

Ambrose, Linda M. and Leah Payne,“Reflections on the Potential of Gender Theory for North American Pentecostal History,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 36:1(2014), 45-63.

Case, Jay R.,“And Ever the Twain Shall Meet: The Holiness Missionary Movement and the Birth of World Pentecostalism, 1870-1920,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 16:2 (Summer 2006), 125-159.

Cerillo, Augustus, “The Beginnings of American Pentecostalism: A Historiographical Overview,”in Edith Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant Wacker, Eds. Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism. University of Illinois Press, 1999, 229-259.

César, Waldo, “From Babel to Pentecost: A Social-Historical-Theological Study of the Growth of Pentecostalism,”André Corten and Ruth Marshal-Fratarii,Eds.Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. Indiana University Press, 2001,22-40.

Creech, Joe, “Visions of Glory: The Place of the Azusa Street Revival in Pentecostal History,” Church History 65 (September 1996), 405-424.

Haustein, Jörg,“Theorizing Pentecostal Historiography: Persecution and Historical Memory in Ethiopia,” PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 11:1 (2012), 171-191.

Holm, Randall, “The Function of Myth and Remembrance among Pentecostals in the Canadian mid-West,” in Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse, Eds, Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement. Brill, 2010, 79-96.

Hudson, Andrew Sinclair,“Pentecostal History, Imagination, and Listening between the Lines,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 36:1(2014), 25-44.

Irvin, Dale T.,“Pentecostal Historiography and Global Christianity: Rethinking the Question of Origins,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 27:1 (Spring 2005), 35-50.

Kay, William, “Three Generations on the Methodology of Pentecostal History,” EPTA Bulletin 10:1–2 (1992) 58–70.

Robeck, Cecil M., “The Use of Public Materials for Instruction on Pentecostal Origins,” Unpublished paper. See: http://www2.wheaton.edu/isae/Pentecostalism/Articles/Robeck.pdf.

Sepulveda, Juan,“Pentecostalism as Popular Religiosity,” International Review of Mission 309 (1989), 80-88.

Stewart, Adam, “From Monogenesis to Polygenesis in Pentecostal Origins: A Survey of the Evidence from the Azusa Street, Hebden and Mukti Missions,” PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 13:2 (2014), 151-172.

Van der Laan, Cornelis,“What Good Can Come from Los Angeles? Changing Perceptions of the North American Pentecostal Origins in Early Western European Pentecostal Periodicals,” in Harold D. Hunter and Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., Eds, The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy. Wipf & Stock, rpt. 2009), ISBN 978-1-60899-154-9. 141-159.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT: for CH847 students: 355 hours; for CH547 students: 160 hours of engagement are expected.

  1. Class attendance and participation, as well as participation in the Saturday tour. (15%). [45 hours].

  2. Timely paper topic selection and bibliography approval. (15%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #s 1 and 2 above]. [40 hours].

  3. Completion of five 250 word essays on selected readings. (15%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #3 and 4 above]. [10 hours for MA and MDiv students]. Completion of ten 250 word essays on selected readings. [30 hours for PhD students].

  4. MA and MDiv students are expected to read broadly and produce at least a 20 page research paper with topic approved by the professor. (55%). PhD students will be expected to produce a research paper at a PhD level, suitable to the topic chosen. It is likely to run at least 35 pages, and must make use of foreign languages materials when they are available. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes # 3, 4, and/or 5 above]. [65 hours for MA and MDiv students]. [240 hours for PhD students].

PREREQUISITES: For master’s level students: CH504, CH505 or CH506.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective. TH4.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.


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