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The Assemblies of God: Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, November 23, 2010

by Margaret M. Poloma (Author), John C. Green (Author)
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The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and mystery that makes“supernatural” experiences, such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal for Christian believers. Ever since it first organized in 1916, however, the “charismata” or “gifts of the Holy Spirit” have felt tension from institutional forces. Over the decades, vital charismatic experiences have been increasingly tamed by rituals, doctrine, and denominational structure. Yet the path towards institutionalization has not been clear-cut. New revivals and direct personal experience of God—the hallmarks of Pentecostalism—continue as an important part of the AG tradition, particularly in the growing number of ethnic congregations in the United States.
The Assemblies of God draws on fresh, up-to-date research including quantitative surveys and interviews from twenty-two diverse Assemblies of God congregations to offer a new sociological portrait of the AG for the new millennium. The authors suggest that there is indeed a potential revitalization of the movement in the works within the context of the larger global Pentecostal upswing, and that this revitalization may be spurred by what the authors call “godly love:” the dynamic interaction between divine and human love that enlivens and expands benevolence.
The volume provides a wealth of data about how the second-largest American Pentecostal denomination sees itself today, and suggests trends to illuminate where it is headed in the future.

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"This work is exceptionally well-crafted and will stand as a new classic for understanding trends within the AG and modern Pentecostalism." ― International Journal of Comparative Sociology

"This book is recommended for those interested in an empirically based study of new and emerging trends in American Pentecostalism." ― Catholic Books Review

"This is a richly provocative book that can be expected to generate many fruitful follow-up explorations." -- Candy Gunther Brown ― Journal of Religion

"A valuable addition to religious studies" -- D. A. Chekki ― Choice

"Herring offers queer history and geography new artifacts of a rural past and present...his work challenges scholars to excavate more of these histories, geographies, and cultural and political styles." -- Mathias Detamore ― Envrionment and Planning D: Society and Space

"Poloma and Green offer an important observation on the different types of congregations emerging within the Assemblies of God." -- Michael Wilkinson ― Sociology of Religion

"The authors successfully maintain a delicate balance between a plethora of statisticsand readable narratives, making the work a primary source for a wide audience of scholars interested in this century-old American Pentecostal journey." -- Geoffrey W. Sutton ― Religious Studies Review

"An insightful, empirically based analysis of how the Assemblies of God denomination is changing in response to modernity. This multimethod book, based on both surveys and field research, contributes to a growing sociological literature on Pentecostalism." -- Donald E. Miller,Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California

"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand American Pentecostalism. Poloma and Green have succeeded in crafting a readable, and indeed enjoyable, narrative that is at the same time precise in its insights, being grounded as it is in a rich array of survey and interview data. Novice and expert alike can learn what Assemblies of God pastors and congregants believe as well as what they actually do or do not do to act on their beliefs." -- Candy Gunther Brown,author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789

"Poloma and Green have rendered a rich and compelling portrait of a complex faith. They probe the countervailing forces that characterize this vibrant denomination, examining how the priestly and the prophetic are intermingled, and how traditional religious orientations are melded with evangelical impulses. Those wishing to understand current developments in the Assemblies of God, and in American Pentecostalism at large, owe it to themselves to read this volume with care. Poloma and Green have their finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing facet of American religion." -- John P. Bartkowski,author of The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men

About the Author

Margaret M. Poloma is Professor Emeritus at the University of Akron. She is the author of many books, including Main Street Mystics,and (with Ralph W. Hood, Jr.) Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church (NYU Press, 2008).

John C. Green is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Akron. He is the author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences the Vote, among other works.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press (November 23, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814767834
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814767832
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 0.86 x 9.08 inches
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MattHuett
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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2013
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This book is a must for those interested in the future viability of the Assemblies of God. Poloma's use of O'Dea's 5 dilemmas/paradoxes are enlightening to say the least.
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Geoff W Sutton
3.0 out of 5 stars What's Love Got to do With It?
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2022
Poloma and Green report findings from a sociological study of the Assemblies of God by interpreting interview and survey data from 447 clergy and 1,827 congregants, contextualized by historical narratives, website documents, previous research, and sociological theories.
They posit that organizational tension between charisma (primal spirituality) and social structure (pragmatic, organizational concerns) can catalyze spiritual revitalization; however, extant data are not quite sufficient to support the hypothesized dynamic. Their findings illustrate the commitment of the Assemblies of God to classic Pentecostal experiences (e.g., glossolalia and divine healing) and concerns for orthodoxy and structure. We also see a strong moral stance consistent with their history.
Godly Love is offered as a theory to explain a dynamic interaction between believers and God, which yields love energy flowing outward in benevolent service. Attitudinal and benevolent activities data suggest the potential for Godly Love as a relational model of the Pentecostal experience.
The analyses and interpretations are heavily dependent upon self-reported attitudes and behaviors by the participants. Some survey scales are challenged by low-scale reliability and limited construct validity. The lack of cohort-based longitudinal data in the context of the American host culture and other religious bodies may relegate trend analysis to speculation. Nevertheless, the authors successfully maintain a delicate balance between a plethora of statistics and readable narratives, making the work a primary source for a wide audience of scholars interested in this century-old American Pentecostal journey.

In the end, we learn about the history, morality, beliefs, and practices of the American Assemblies of God. We do not learn a lot about the features of divine love and it's relationship to human love as suggested by the title.
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Samantha Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Sociology of Pentecostalism
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013
Love the way of her writing, she knows how to be a sociologist. Talk about verstehen on Pentecostalism is talking about Margaret M. Poloma.
Easy to understand complicated ideas and ideologies.
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Brian Fulthorp
4.0 out of 5 stars actually...
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2012
just wanted to alert folks interested in the book that the Assemblies of God first convened in 1914 not in 1916 as one endorsement above avers. maybe that is a typo? blessings,
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