{"id":55850,"date":"2016-10-01T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cc_philip_jenkins-take_read_books_in_global_christianity\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T19:00:49","slug":"cc_philip_jenkins-take_read_books_in_global_christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55850","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Philip Jenkins&#8211;Take &#038; Read: Books in Global Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Back, Moving Forward: Trans\u00c2\u00adformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost, by Girish Daswani (University of Toronto Press, 280 pp., $27.95 paperback). So much writing about evangelicals and Pentecostals focuses on the born-again moment and the experience of conversion. But what then? How does that change affect one\u2019s life? Exactly what is \u201ctransformed\u201d\u009d by the spiritual rebirth? Anthropologist Girish Daswani addresses these questions by looking at members of a thriving Ghanaian church, the Church of Pentecost, based mainly in London. Besides explaining the issue of lifestyle change, the book offers a fascinating range of life stories and experiences, which combine to tell us much about the appeal of charismatic Christianity to contemporary Africans. An excellent contribution to the study of migrant faith, this book also has much to say about spirituality and religious practice more broadly defined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/reviews\/2016-09\/global-christianity\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Back, Moving Forward: Trans\u00c2\u00adformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost, by Girish Daswani (University of Toronto Press, 280 pp., $27.95 paperback). So much writing about evangelicals and Pentecostals focuses on the born-again moment and the experience<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55850\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,92,119,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-books","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}