Altar Call in Europe

This book provides a transnational history of Billy Graham’s revival work in the 1950s, zooming in on his revival meetings in London (1954), Berlin (1954/1960), and New York (1957). It shows how Graham’s international ministry took shape in the context of transatlantic debates about the place and future of religion in public life after the experiences of war and at the onset of the Cold War, and through a constant exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It explores the transnational nature of debates about the religious underpinnings of the “Free World” and sheds new light on the contested relationship between business, consumerism, and religion. In the context of Graham’s revival meetings, ordinary Christians, theologians, ministers, and church leaders in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom discussed, experienced, and came to terms with religious modernization and secular anxieties, Cold War culture, and the rise of consumerism. The transnational connectedness of their political, economic, and spiritual hopes and fears brings a narrative to life that complicates our understanding of the different secularization paths the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany embarked on in the 1950s. During Graham’s altar call in Europe, the contours of a transatlantic revival become visible, even if in the long run it was unable to develop a dynamism that could have sustained this moment in these different national and religious contexts.

Living Religion

The chapter explores the everyday contributions of ordinary Christians to the running of Graham’s crusades. In forming prayer groups and organizing bus rides, ordinary Christians blurred the boundaries between private religiosity and public mass evangelism, as well as between the religious and the secular. They filled the organizational structures implemented by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association with life and by doing so turned the crusades into a powerful force of renewal for local churches and everyday religious life in London, Berlin, and New York. Women played a crucial role in this everyday running of the crusade machine. Religious practices such as prayer and pilgrimages traveled with Billy Graham and crossed the national boundaries between the different organizing committees. Organized prayer turned into a dynamic form of transnational communication that tied different crusade audiences together and became the cornerstone of Graham’s international ministry.

Apontamentos de Pesquisa: A Pandemia Covid – 19: Teologia, Ciência e Arte em Conversas

We gathered twenty-two articles from dozens of researchers in this collection and organized them into three parts. The varied themes are broad and general enough to give us an overview of the importance of social research in our universities. The articles talk about newborns and children about their desired well-being and children's literature, about health, social assistance and various hospital care. They also address philosophical themes and popular religiosity and pentecostalism in times of crisis, with an interest in the lives of youth in university residences and libraries, the resistance of blacks and women, in addition to ladies in physical education. Not omitting social themes in the health crisis, such as the fatigue of health professionals, the suffering and courage of hemodialysis patients, and about the street populations and life reports of “sex workers”. With pertinent essays analyzing this health and social crisis, the collection includes articles that deal with neoliberalism, reforms, labor and public social security, the elite project "education for everyone" and the necessary criticism of the World Bank's educational guidelines, the new international ministry of education, revealing policies elaborated on the anti-social perspective of financial capital. They reveal and denounce fascism once again, historical racism and religious conformism.

PENGARUH MOTIF PENGGUNAAN MEDIA TERHADAP KEPUASAN ANGGOTA WHATSAPP GROUP NEW WAVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

Humans as social beings communicate for various purposes, in this global era, online media is the choice for audiences when compared to other media. One of the most important communication media in Indonesia is WhatsApp with the WhatsApp group feature for group communication. The theory used is the Theory of Uses and Gratifications which examines the effect of media use. The method approach used in this study is quantitative by explanatory survey and using saturated sampling or census sampling techniques by distributing questionnaires to 113 respondents who are members of the WhatsApp group New Wave International Ministry. The influence of the motives of personal relationships has a considerable influence on the satisfaction of WhatsApp group members New Wave International Ministry, while the motives of surveillance, motives of personal identity and motives of diversity have sufficient influence on the satisfaction of WhatsApp members in the New Wave International Ministry. Keywords: Motive, Satisfaction, WhatsApp group

The Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy

Beginning with a look at the immediate historical causes for emigration in the British and Irish depression and famines of the 1840s, this chapter contains the narrative of the establishment and subsequent development of the Anglican emigrants’ chaplaincy from its origin in 1846, through the development of ships’, colonial, and United States chaplains, to the emergence of the work of matrons escorting parties of single females in the 1880s. The chapter also sets the Anglican developments in the context of other Churches’ emigration ministries, particularly the Salvation Army and the Mormons. It also examines sectarianism in the period, and how that impacted on the Anglican chaplaincy. It finds that the Church of England had the largest, longest-lived, and most international ministry to emigrants of all denominations in the nineteenth century.

Le Divorce Des Pasteurs En Milieu Evangelique Ivoirien : Approche Socio-Anthropologique D’un Phenomene Desintegrateur A Travers Le Cas Des Communautes « Assemblees De Dieu » Et « Ministere International De La Revelation » De Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte-d’Ivoire

In evangelical communities, divorce is prohibited and a pastor is seen as a model, a spiritual guide and, above all, a guarantor of the Christian faith and morality. From this point of view, the breakdown of the marriage bond of a pastor with his wife undermines the cohesion and stability of the communities under his tutelage. This is because divorce is considered in Christian circles as a transgressive and anomic act. This article is a comprehensive approach of the divorce of pastors. It also shows its explanatory factors using a case study of two localities, the Assemblies of God Church and the International Ministry of the Revelation of Yopougon. The study was carried out using a socio-anthropological approach combined with both qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on the result of this study, the divorce of pastors is explained by several factors. The most essential include: the tensions and the recurring disputes in the couple; the continued infidelity of the spouses; the lack of forgiveness and reciprocal acceptance of spouses in case of error; the subtle flight of one of the spouses of the household, and so on. Although they are human guides and shepherds, pastors who have succumbed to these situations have destroyed the sacred bond of their marriage. These kinds of behavior of the evangelical guides have led to the regression of the social and political functioning of the Christian communities. Divorce, however, has become a symbolic act of destruction of socio-religious bonds while tarnishing the image of the evangelical world.