Pentecostal & Charismatic
- Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
- Matthew Avery Sutton
- Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.
- Hardcover 2007
- Heaven Below
- Grant Wacker
- Grant Wacker gives an in-depth account of the religious practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines various aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals, speaking in tongues, the authority of the Bible, the central role of Jesus in everyday life, the gifts of prophecy and healing, ideas about personal appearance, women's roles, and race relations.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003