معية الله تعالى في القرآن الكريم = The Assembly of God in Quran Preparation

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 53-113
Author(s):  
ماجدة خليفة قاسم
Keyword(s):  
Assembly Of God

TASTELESS AS HELL: COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE, DISTINCTION, AND COUNTERTASTE IN HELL HOUSE

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Warfare ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Vacuum Cleaner ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Assembly Of God ◽  
Raw Meat ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Community Performance ◽  
Born Again

It's 10∶30 at night, the day after Halloween 2003. I'm standing in line outside of the Freedom Assembly of God Church in Tallahassee, Florida, to watch their first annual Hell House. Every October, hundreds of congregations across America mount religious dramas conceived as Christian Halloween alternatives. Such productions typically invoke and alter haunted-house conventions, replacing ghosts and monsters with demons and sin—all designed to confront unsaved audience members with the reality of spiritual warfare and the necessity of being born again. Whereas the Tallahassee version promised to be relatively modest, many other Hell House events boast huge production budgets and attract thousands of visitors annually. In recent years, these shows have garnered considerable media attention for their shocking, graphically staged scenes of “sin” and its consequences. Infamous images include gay people dying of AIDS and burning in hell, black-clad, Columbine-style gunmen mowing down Christians in schools, and blood-soaked abortions featuring vacuum-cleaner noises and bowls of raw meat meant to resemble fetuses. Criticism pours in from both left-wing advocacy groups and other evangelical Christians. It's “pornography for the soul,” it's “simplistic theology,” it's “spiritual violence.”

The King of Kings

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-44
Author(s):  
Lorena Oropeza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bible College ◽  
Assembly Of God ◽  
Migrant Farmworker ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bible School

Born in 1926 outside of San Antonio, Texas, to a migrant farmworker family, Reies López Tijerina’s earliest years were defined by severe poverty and intense religiosity. Nevertheless, starting as a boy, Tijerina saw himself as destined by God for greatness. After attending a Pentecostal Bible college, he spent five years as an Assembly of God minister before becoming an itinerant preacher. As a preacher, he crisscrossed the United States, including several trips through northern New Mexico, which introduced him to the sordid history of land dispossession in the region. His marriage to a fellow Bible school student, Mary Escobar, produced an ever-growing family that joined him in his constant travels and life of precarity. In 1954, a collection of his sermons condemned the United States and its citizens for licentiousness and greed.

Two American Churches: Partisanship without Politics

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Bean
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Assembly Of God ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
American Churches

This chapter illustrates how “political” talk was considered unspiritual and inappropriate in the American congregations of Northtown Baptist and Lifeway Assembly of God. But even though both churches avoided politics, they enforced an informal understanding that good Christians voted Republican. The chapter describes how religion and partisanship became fused, as members mapped their subcultural identity and drew on narratives of religious nationalism. Political influence did not work through explicit persuasion or deliberation, but rather through implicit cues about what political affiliations were for “people like us.” These political cues were so powerful precisely because they were distanced from the dirty business of politics; instead, they were woven into the fabric of everyday religious life.

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