The Spirit of Praise

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