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Global awakening : how 20th-century revivals triggered a Christian revolution / Mark Shaw.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010.Description: 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780830838776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830838775 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 269/.240917240904 22
LOC classification:
  • BV 3777.D44 S52 2010
Contents:
Beyond the sawdust trail : the dynamics of global revival -- Above the 38th parallel : Kil Sun Ju and the Korean revival of 1907 -- The Resurrection man : Joseph Babalola and the Aladura revival of 1930 -- Waking the dead : V.S. Azariah and the Dornakal revival in India -- Nothing but the blood : William Nagenda and the east Africa revival in Uganda -- Born again : Billy Graham and the revival of American evangelicalism -- Salt of the earth : Paulo Borges, Jr. and revival in Brazil -- New Jerusalems : Mensa Otabil, African Pentecostalism and reverse mission -- Taming the dragon : Zhang Rongliang and the Chinese house churches -- Rethinking revival : lessons from the story of world Christianity.
Summary: Mark Shaw's thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. We read the stories of Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival in Africa, of Kil Sun-Ju and the great Korean revival of 1907, of Paulo Borges Jr. and explosion of neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil, and of V. S. Azariah and the mass conversions of the Dalit people in India. --from publisher description
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BV 3777 .D44 S52 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA001492 Available AUA001492

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond the sawdust trail : the dynamics of global revival -- Above the 38th parallel : Kil Sun Ju and the Korean revival of 1907 -- The Resurrection man : Joseph Babalola and the Aladura revival of 1930 -- Waking the dead : V.S. Azariah and the Dornakal revival in India -- Nothing but the blood : William Nagenda and the east Africa revival in Uganda -- Born again : Billy Graham and the revival of American evangelicalism -- Salt of the earth : Paulo Borges, Jr. and revival in Brazil -- New Jerusalems : Mensa Otabil, African Pentecostalism and reverse mission -- Taming the dragon : Zhang Rongliang and the Chinese house churches -- Rethinking revival : lessons from the story of world Christianity.

Mark Shaw's thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. We read the stories of Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival in Africa, of Kil Sun-Ju and the great Korean revival of 1907, of Paulo Borges Jr. and explosion of neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil, and of V. S. Azariah and the mass conversions of the Dalit people in India. --from publisher description