Fire from Heaven The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century

It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week theLos Angeles Timeswas reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible'and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality'a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.Cox, Harvey is the author of 'Fire from Heaven The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century', published 2001 under ISBN 9780306810497 and ISBN 0306810492.