Oneness Pentecostalism

Race, Gender, and Culture

Lloyd D. Barba, Andrea Shan Johnson, Daniel Ramírez, Lloyd D. Barba, Andrea Shan Johnson, Daniel Ramírez

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780271094540
• eBook ISBN: 9780271095950
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

This volume traces the history of Oneness Pentecostalism in North America. It maps the major ideas, arguments, periodization, and historical figures; corrects long-standing misinterpretations; and draws attention to how race and gender impacted the growth and trajectories of this movement.

Oneness Pentecostalism emerged in the aftermath of the Azusa Street Revival (1906–9), baptizing its members in the name of Jesus Christ rather than the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and splintering from trinitarian Pentecostals. With its rapid growth throughout the twentieth century, especially among ethnic minorities, Oneness Pentecostalism assumed a diversity of theological, ethnic, and cultural expressions. This book reckons with the multiculturalism of the movement over the course of the twentieth century. While common interpretations tend to emphasize the restorationist impulse of Oneness Pentecostalism, leading to notions of a static, unchanging movement, the contributors to this work demonstrate that the movement is much more fluid and that the interpretation of its history and theology should be grounded in the variegated North American contexts in which Oneness Pentecostalism has taken root and dynamically developed.

Groundbreaking and interdisciplinary, this volume presents diverse perspectives on a significant religious movement whose modern origins are embedded within the larger Pentecostal story. It will be welcomed by religious studies scholars and by practitioners of Oneness Pentecostalism.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel Chiquete, Dara Coleby Delgado, Patricia Fortuny-Loret de Mola, Manuel Gaxiola, David A. Reed, Rosa Sailes, and Daniel Segraves.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Remapping the History of North American Oneness Pentecostalism
• 1. The Unresolved Issue: A Third-World Perspective on the Oneness Question
• 2. Evangelical Origins of Oneness Pentecostal Theology
• 3. Sounding Out Diversity in Pentecostal History: Early Oneness Hymnody
• 4. Andrew D. Urshan: An Eastern Voice in Early Oneness Pentecostalism
• 5. The Dust District: Okies, Authority, and the Hard-Liner Transformation of California Pentecostalism
• 6. The Braziers: Three Generations of Apostolic Activism
• 7. Bossed and Bothered: Authority and Gender in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
• 8. Trust God to Provide for the Difference: The Economic and Opportunity Costs of Being Female and a Preacher
• 9. Women in the Luz del Mundo Church: A Transnational Study
• 10. Liturgical Spaces in Mexican Oneness Pentecostalism: Architectural and Spatial Dimensions
• Conclusion: Navigating New Paths to Old Landmarks
• List of Contributors
• Index