Aimee Semple McPherson and the making of modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926 - Barfoot, Chas H. (London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2011)
An answered prayer : Aimee Elizabeth -- Romance and religion : Mrs. Robert Semple -- Going to Nineveh by way of Tarshish : a Pentecostal prophetess -- Tents and tabernacles : camping in Canaan's happy land -- Mother and daughter en route to the Promised Land -- Los Angeles -- Azusa Street and Aimee of the angels -- The beautiful woman in white -- Blurring boundaries and open doors -- Spiritual healing in American Protestantism : popular religious culture and high church culture -- Barnstorming America and building a house unto the Lord -- San Diego : the great jumping-off place -- Denver : awake beyond any city -- Northern California : Baptists and Congregationalists -- Rochester : "the most antagonistic city" and the burned-over district revisited -- Wichita : the middle road -- Oakland : the Interdenominational Foursquare Gospel -- Angelus Temple : multitudes and miracles -- New Protestant boundaries : salvaging Methodism and saving the mainline by purging Pentecostalism and pushing it to the periphery -- May 18, 1926 -- Resurrection in Arizona -- Epilogue: Testimony, people's religion, and the search for spirituality.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-616) and index.
Keywords: McPherson, Aimee Semple, -- 1890-1944.; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel -- Clergy -- Biography; Pentecostal churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography; Pentecostal churches -- History; Pentecostalism -- History