Titlebook: Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; Case Studies in Hist Jessica Moberg,Jane Skjoldli Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2018 The Editor(s)

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Introduction,offer them healing and therapeutic methods with which to confront their everyday problems. Solutions are offered through intercessory prayer. Many of the intercessors are women involved in Charismatic churches. Their aim is to carry out missionary work but, as they engage with potential converts, th

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Paving the Way for Pentecostalism: A Historical Exploration of Post-Reformation Revivals in Norwayral waves of missionaries influenced by revivals in the United States. Mormons were the first to establish congregations (1852), closely followed by Methodists (1856) and Baptists (1857). Many of the missionaries were Norwegian migrants returning to their old homeland, ready to spread their versions

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The Norwegian Pentecostal Foreign Mission: A Survey of Mission History with an Emphasis on Organizatforeign mission in general. The historical overview given here foregrounds the following topics: (1) the attempts to establish a central mission agency, which finally resulted in the creation of PYM (acronym for Pinsevennenes Ytre Misjon—“The Pentecostal Friends’ Foreign Mission”), an institution th

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The Finnish Pentecostal Movement: An Analysis of Internal Struggle as a Process of Habitual Divisiondeal not only with reactions to postmodern developments in Finnish society, but also with institutionalization and structural disputes within. As the movement has become more middle-class-oriented, and constructs and maintains a habitus capable of coping with postmodern surroundings, some members an

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Knutby Filadelfia: A Schismatic New Religious Movement Within the Pentecostal Contextof the national network the Pentecostal Movement (Pingströrelsen) until 2004, when it was expelled on the grounds that its beliefs were “unorthodox.” In January of that year, a tragic crime put this community in the spotlight of media attention, which entailed the public exposure of its unique belie

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Faith Healing Revisited: A Charismatic Christian Intervention to the Therapy Culture in Finlandof traditional Pentecostal faith healing implemented by the Healing Rooms, a globally expanded predominantly Charismatic Christian intercessory prayer service. The underlying purpose of this activity is undoubtedly evangelization. However, this mission is carried out exclusively by praying for clien

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Sharing and Holy Hugs: The Birth and Development of Intimization in Charismatic Stockholms between practitioners. Drawing upon ethnographic material gathered between 2009 and 2013, this study illustrates how the trend has developed. The chapter explores how intimization is ritualized and embodied in practices such as hugs, and materialized in churches’ interior design and manifested in