Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-195).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2004. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 434-442).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2004. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 434-442).

This dissertation examines the life and work of Charles Ewing Brown (1883-1971), an influential twentieth-century leader of the Church of God (Anderson, IN). During his editorship of the Gospel Trumpet from 1930 to 1951, Brown reinterpreted Christian doctrine in ways that often challenged predominant evangelical and fundamentalist theologies of the mid-twentieth century. Although often associated with theological developments in the nineteenth century, the holiness movement impacted the twentieth century in significant ways, concurrent with the contributions of pentecostalism and neo-evangelicalism. In the late 1950s, a prominent mainline leader heralded the rise of the “Third Force in Christendom,” which prioritized an experiential and primitivist faith that was not encapsulated in Roman Catholicism or historical Protestantism. Despite the presence of holiness groups like the Church of God in the Third Force, prevailing historical narratives of the mid-twentieth century have prioritized the importance of the Reformed fundamentalist tradition associated with Baptists and Presbyterians. In contrast, Brown’s holiness fundamentalism rejected the premillennialism and cultural separatism that prevail in most historians’ depiction of the tradition. Overall, Brown complicates how historians have understood terms such as fundamentalist and evangelical. This work offers a nuanced historical account by showing how a significant holiness leader inherited and modified the beliefs and practices of formative traditions. Through a survey of monographs, editorials, and addresses, this dissertation foregrounds the foundations and implications of Brown’s claim of being an evangelical and a fundamentalist. It begins with a biographical chapter and successive chapters explore how Brown’s outlook informed his view of revivalism and doctrine, his ecclesiology, his critique of premillennialism, his articulation of the social dimensions of Christianity, and his socio-political commentary. The conclusion contextualizes Brown and analyzes his historiographical significance. For Brown, the evangelical and fundamentalist disposition was primarily communal, and the prevailing trend toward hyper-individualism and separation deeply concerned him. By challenging the assumptions about the conservative nature of evangelicalism and the epistemological foundation of fundamentalism, this study offers an initial foray into how holiness groups shaped the contours of twentieth-century American Christianity. It reveals Brown’s continuity with nineteenth-century evangelical social reform efforts and with late twentieth-century progressive evangelicals.

Scholarship on Black American religious life has historically understood Black Pentecostalism as unconcerned with the socially-challenging lived experiences of its congregants. Many scholars and lay observers, maintaining that such Pentecostal religious life has no identifiable political dimension, have consequently overlooked the political nature of the ritual practices animating the worship event. Centering the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) as a case study, this dissertation argues that the ritual practices of COGIC worship events carry a tradition of political protest that contest dominant ideas of what it means to be “human” as both a social-political identity and an ontological category. To accomplish its task, this dissertation reinterprets turn-of-the-twentieth-century historical events and employs social theory to investigate the social practices of Black Pentecostals. It is the contention of this dissertation that COGIC congregants have historically embodied and expressed their political commitments through the adoption, adaptation, and engagement with Christian rituals. The project demonstrates how the ritual practices of worship (relating to preaching, music-making, tarrying, and ecstasy) allow COGIC congregants to remake themselves and their world, challenging the larger society to reconsider what it means to be “human.” Through the examination of four ritual practices of COGIC worship, this project explains how that group participates in the political dimension of human life as a necessary part of its religious activity. Through the activity of worship, congregants participate in the work of making themselves anew, which impacts how the greater society relates to them as people who are due the rights and privileges of U.S. American citizenship. Simultaneously, COGIC worship provides the ontological discourse or tools for congregants to become “new beings,” which directly corresponds to—and contests (racist) dominant ideas of—what it means to be human. / 2026-05-16T00:00:00Z

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eber Nunes.pdf: 594618 bytes, checksum: e71e1e74411f9d5f78d8454da016a309 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-01-31 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The new Pentecostalism calls attention because of its growing here in Brazil. Between the new Pentecostal churches can be mentioned the World s Church of God s Power . Founded by apostle Valdemiro Santiago in the year 1998, have conquered place in media and in number of adepts. The World s Church of God s Power is a dissident of Universal Church of God s Kingdom . Our research verify the differences and similarities between the World s Church of God s Power and Universal Church of God s Kingdom . To understand the phenomenological process, we choose the Weberian method of the sociology of comprehension. We built through the relive, one concept of pure and ideal type in the dialectic movement between World s Church of God s Power and Universal Church of God s Kingdom . In the ideality field, the Universal represents the bureaucracy, which is the process of institutionalization, historic results of all the religious movement. The World s Church of God s Power represents the prophecy, that the characteristic is the contestation. An exam of the rational domination and charismatic domination will help us to comprehend the phenomenon. The fundamental difference between the two churches is focused in charisma. The Universal institutionalize itself trough the bureaucracy, rational domination, and the World s is the prophecy that is reaffirmed by the charismatic domination. / O neopentecostalismo chama a atenção devido ao seu crescimento aqui no Brasil. Dentre as igrejas neopentecostais destaca-se a Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus. Fundada pelo apóstolo Valdemiro Santiago em 1998, tem conquistado lugar na mídia e em número de adeptos. A Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus é uma dissidência da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Nossa pesquisa verifica o que há de convergente e divergente entre a Mundial e a Universal. Para compreender o processo fenomenológico, optamos pelo método werberiano da sociologia da compreensão. Construímos através da revivência um conceito de tipo puro ideal no movimento dialético entre a Mundial e Universal. No campo da idealidade, a Universal passa a representar a Burocracia, que é o processo de institucionalização, resultado histórico de todo movimento religioso. A Mundial representa a Profecia, cuja característica é a contestação. Em decorrência, um exame da dominação racional e dominação carismática nos ajudará compreender o fenômeno. A diferença fundamental entre as duas igrejas se concentra no carisma. A Universal se institucionaliza através da burocracia, dominação racional, e a Mundial é a profecia que se reafirma através da dominação carismática.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-09-13T11:38:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alden Antonio de Araujo.pdf: 2493122 bytes, checksum: cb42aaaedd72e0b6c79bb3bc1f0f8c4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-13T11:38:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alden Antonio de Araujo.pdf: 2493122 bytes, checksum: cb42aaaedd72e0b6c79bb3bc1f0f8c4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The Pentecostal Church "God is Love", founded in 1962 by David Martins Miranda, consolidated in the Pentecostal area from the charisma of its founder-leader. Considering the idea of elective affinity, it is possible to affirm that the social, cultural, political, economic and, especially, religious context of the 1950s and 1960s favored the emergence of this charismatic leader and the formation of IPDA, which sought to consolidate in the Pentecostal area from Some identity marks proper to this church, its Internal Regulations, its World Headquarters, IPDA's option for the poorest, the restricted and selective use of the media, and the "War on Evil" worldview. These elements that constitute IPDA's identity are intended to contribute to the consolidation of David Miranda's charisma and strengthen the monopoly of its capital. From the death of the founder emerges the need to transmit the charism and a complex process of succession surrounded by tensions in regard to disputes over power / A Igreja Pentecostal “Deus é Amor”, fundada em 1962 por David Martins Miranda, se consolidou no campo pentecostal a partir do carisma de seu líder-fundador. Considerando a ideia de afinidade eletiva, é possível afirmar que o contexto social, cultural, político, econômico e, sobretudo, religioso dos anos 50 e 60 favoreceram o surgimento deste líder carismático e a formação da IPDA. Esta denominação buscou se consolidar no campo pentecostal a partir de algumas marcas identitárias propriamente características desta igreja: seu Regulamento Interno, sua Sede Mundial, a opção que a IPDA faz pelos mais pobres, o uso restrito e seletivo das mídias e a cosmovisão centrada na “Guerra contra o Mal”. Estes elementos, que constituem a identidade da IPDA, têm por finalidade contribuir com a consolidação do carisma de David Miranda e reforçar o monopólio de seu capital. A partir do falecimento do fundador, emerge a necessidade de transmissão do carisma e um complexo processo de sucessão cercado de tensões no que se refere a disputas pelo poder

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 246 p. : map. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:46:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tais Pereira.pdf: 1413198 bytes, checksum: 08ce84d05f33bc4e208e801eb9c2d8fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-28 / The neopentecostal religious discourse has been grown on Brazilian mass media circuit since 1970 s, accompanying impressive increase of the neopentecostal Christians on Brasil. One of these neopentecostal churches is called Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus (IIGD). In such scenario, among neopentecostal churches, IIGD it is the greatest user of mass media resources. Those resources are used to disseminate own doctrine. IIGD has acquainted more hours on television media and offered more products with doctrinarian tone. Among its products, it can be registered a journal of national circulation, Revista Graça Show da Fé (RGSF). Through simple and hyperbolic language, RGSF performs a very persuasive discourse that results in not only many people adhered to IIGD but also it registers a distinctive performance of eight years of journal distribution. RGSF is a religious journal and its editorial is marked by unique elements by comparing it to a genre of editorial. In RGSF s editorial, the editor has preached, persuasively, his doctrine and commanded his readers, whose is called by him as Show da Fé sponsors , to valorize and maintain their financial support to IIGD. Also, the editor has proclaimed that all actions of IIGD are commanded and blessed by God, so, the faithful sponsor will be blessed while he or her has been connected to IIGD. The peculiarities of hybrid form of RGSF editorial is a study object of this master dissertation which aims to verify, through techniques of French Semiotics, how persuasive strategies are used by enunciator (or sender), how fiduciary contract is established between enunciator and enunciatee (or receiver or allocutor) and how ethos is built. As result of this investigation it could be established that editorial genre of religious journal is a hybrid form of genre of editorial, and it has been adapted to obtain high effective effects from persuasive strategies used by RGSF s editorial enunciator. It could also be verified that the conjunction of simple and hyperbolic language works very well to seduce and attract readers to enunciator s do-believe and do-do. / O discurso religioso neopentecostal se expande na mídia brasileira, desde a década de 1970, acompanhando o aumento vertiginoso do número de cristãos neopentecostais no Brasil. A Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus (IIGD) destaca-se, nesse cenário, como a igreja neopentecostal que mais utiliza recursos midiáticos para a disseminação de sua doutrina. É a que mais possui horas na mídia televisiva e lança o maior número de produtos de viés doutrinários no mercado. Dentre esses produtos, registra-se a revista de circulação nacional, Revista Graça Show da Fé (RGSF), que, em linguagem simples e hiperbólica, apresenta um discurso de tal forma persuasivo que assegura tanto a adesão de muitas pessoas à IIGD como o marco de oito anos de publicação mensal da revista. A RGSF é revista religiosa e seu editorial apresenta características peculiares em relação ao gênero editorial. Nele, o editorialista, persuasivamente, prega sua doutrina e convoca leitor e, leitora, os (as) patrocinadores (as) do programa Show da Fé, a valorizarem e manterem sua função de mantenedores (as) da IIGD. Proclama, também, que todas as ações da IIGD são ordenadas e abençoadas por Deus, e, por isso, o (a) fiel patrocinador (a) será, ao se manter ligado (a) à IIGD, abençoado (a). Dentre as peculiaridades da forma híbrida do editorial da RGSF propôs-se, nesta dissertação, através da semiótica de linha francesa, analisar as estratégias de persuasão utilizadas pelo enunciador, o contrato fiduciário estabelecido entre enunciador e enunciatário e a construção do éthos. Como resultado desta pesquisa, demonstrou-se que o gênero editorial de revista religiosa pode ser considerado uma forma híbrida do gênero editorial, adaptado para garantir o sucesso das estratégias de persuasão do enunciador do editorial da RGSF. Verificou-se, também, que o jogo da linguagem simples e hiperbólica é eficaz ao seduzir e atrair o (a) leitor (a) para o fazer-crer e o fazer-fazer do enunciador.

A tragic massacre in May 1921, commonly referred to as the Bulhoek Massacre, was associated with the ecclesiology of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, founded by Enoch Mgijima. If it were not for the theology of eschatology that this church adhered to, the so-called Bulhoek Massacre would not have happened. The theology of eschatology which Mgijima was focussing on caused the ecclesiology of the amaSirayeli to be the victims of the circumstances. Dulles defines ecclesiology as the church in the process of self actualisation. There is self understanding of worshippers. In the case of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, such self-understanding caused the Bulhoek Massacre. It is said that when people fervently believe in an Ultimate Being, whether such belief is a construction in their minds or a reality, then those people will be willing to defend their belief and die for, if it needs to be. For such a believer, it is because of the hope for a better life in the future that they are willing to even defy earthly authorities. When that believer follows a voice of the supernatural, which is revealed only to him and sounds much louder, much clearer and more authoritative than human voices, it is then that he cannot be void. Such an authoritative voice may be transmitted either through ancestors, known as the living dead, or directly from the Supreme Being. In the case of the said church, it is both. Secondly, an ecclesiology of the Church of God and Saints of Christ should be understood in the light of their mother church in America under the leadership of Crowdy the founder. Such ecclesiology should also be understood against the religious backdrop of the African Initiated Churches (AIC). These two factors, the mother church in America and the religion of the African Initiated Churches, will be the main components that drive this thesis, and thus illuminate the spark in the said church. Owing to the proliferation of the African Initiated Churches in the continent of Africa, there is a wide speculation that Africa, of the 21st century, will be the centre of World Christianity. Whether this is just a dream or a reality remains to be realized. But the fact remains that, these churches continue to be a religious force that forms part of the church history in Africa. While this thesis will constantly be referring to the 1921 events, an ecclesiology of the said church is a present phenomenon because the church survived the massacre and is still active today. The two researchers, Robert Edgar from Los Angeles University in the USA, and Martin Mandew from the University of Natal, completed their doctoral theses on the Bulhoek Massacre. Edgar was researching on, The Fifth Seal. Enoch Mgijima, The amaSirayeli Bulhoek Massacre, 1921. Mandew concentrated on, War, Memory and Salvation, The Bulhoek Massacre and the Construction of a Contextual Soteriology. Since both researchers come from a distance, and are unable to speak the language of the people they were researching, there were of obviously unfilled gaps in between. As mentioned about cultural differences, therefore, knowing the language of the worshippers makes a big difference. There needs some analysis of idiomatic expressions, enunciated and other formal and informal expressions that tend to be important during communication. However, I acknowledge their research programme but I will go further from their product. This thesis examines the ecclesiology of this church and then relates it to the massacre where they were killed for their own beliefs. It is also important to analyse, as this thesis does, the church-state relations in South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in order to establish how other religious bodies related to the governments of the said period. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Church History)