Ingalls Monique Marie - The spirit of praise: music and worship in global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity

The Spirit of Praise

The Spirit of Praise

Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity

Edited by Monique M. Ingalls and Amos Yong

The Pennsylvania State University Press

University Park, Pennsylvania

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The spirit of praise : music and worship in global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity / edited by Monique M. Ingalls and Amos Yong.

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Summary: A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and theological approaches, resulting in a multidisciplinary analysis of a global phenomenonProvided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-271-06662-2 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. MusicReligious aspectsPentecostal churches.
2. Worship.
3. Pentecostal churches.
I. Ingalls, Monique Marie, editor. II. Yong, Amos, editor.

ML 3921.4. P 46 S 65 2015

264.2dc23 2014048713

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Introduction: Interconnection, Interface, and Identification in Pentecostal-Charismatic Music and Worship
Monique M. Ingalls

Part I:
Healing, Renewal, and Revitalization

1 / Musical Bodies in the Charismatic Renewal: The Case of Catch the Fire and Soaking Prayer
Peter Althouse and Michael Wilkinson

2 / Salvation (Not Yet?) Materialized: Healing as Possibility and Possible Complication for Expressing Suffering in Pentecostal Music and Worship
Andrew M. McCoy

3 / Dreaming Urban Indigenous Australian Christian Worship in the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit
Tanya Riches

4 / Every Creative Aspect Breaking Out! Pentecostal-Charismatic Worship, Oro Gospel Music, and a Millennialist Aesthetic in Papua New Guinea
Michael Webb

5 / Worship Music as Aesthetic Domain of Meaning and Bonding: The Glocal Context of a Dutch Pentecostal Church
Miranda Klaver

Part II:
Negotiating Traditions in Transition

6 / This Is Not the Warm-Up Act!: How Praise and Worship Reflects Expanding Musical Traditions and Theology in a Bapticostal Charismatic African American Megachurch
Birgitta J. Johnson

7 / Singing the Lords Song in the Spirit and with Understanding: The Practice of Nairobi Pentecostal Church
Jean Ngoya Kidula

8 / Soaking Songs Versus Medicine Man Chant: Musical Resonance Among Din Oodln (Navajo Believers)
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall

9 / We Can Be Renewed: Resistance and Worship at the Anchor Fellowship
Andrew Mall

10 / Hillsong Abroad: Tracing the Songlines of Contemporary Pentecostal Music
Mark Evans

Part III:
Media, Culture, and the Marketplace

11 / Charismatic Music and the Pentecostalization of Latin American Evangelicalism
Ryan R. Gladwin

12 / Blessed to Be a Blessing: The Prosperity Gospel of Worship Music Superstar Israel Houghton
Wen Reagan

13 / Music, Culture Industry, and the Shaping of Charismatic Worship: An Autobiographical/Conversational Engagement
Dave Perkins

14 / We Cant Go Back: Liturgies of Worship and Consumer Culture at One African American Church
Will Boone

15 / Gospel Funk: Pentecostalism, Music, and Popular Culture in Rio de Janeiro
Martijn Oosterbaan

Conclusion: Improvisation, Indigenization, and Inspiration: Theological Reflections on the Sound and Spirit of Global Renewal
Amos Yong

This has been an enormously rewarding journey for us as coeditors. The genesis of this volume now lies amid a triangulating convergence of trajectories: Amos sensing that the theme of global renewal music and worship needed sustained and interdisciplinary consideration; Moniques scholarly research, which engaged with renewal music and worship themes, and her conference organizational work, which produced a network of enthusiastic contributors; and Amos finding Monique through what could only have been a series of providential events and their discerning a compatibility of interests, expertise, and work ethic. The result is that we have both been blessed to have navigated this path together, each learning a great deal about topics that the other knows much about. We could not have predicted, when embarking on this journey three years ago, how smoothly it would go and how remarkably complementary we would be for this interdisciplinary undertaking. We also could not have predicted how well this volume would fit into and exemplify the increasing cross-pollination of our disciplines more broadly, as religious and theological studies increasingly seek ways to integrate sound and music studies approaches, and as ethnomusicologists express a renewed and sustained interest in sacred and religious musical traditions. Illustrating this convergence of interest are the two parallel conferences from which many of the chapters in this volume arose: the 2011 American Academy of Religions Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group session on music (co-organized by Amos) and the 2011 Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford (co-organized by Monique).

We are also grateful to the contributors of this volume for their diligent and timely efforts. Patrick Alexander at The Pennsylvania State University Press was the one who initially expressed interest in publishing the book, and Kathryn Yahner at the press has been a wonderful and responsive editor. Both editors and contributors are thankful to Julie Schoelles for her thorough and constructive comments during the copyediting process. Vince Le, Enoch Charles, and Ryan Seow, Amoss graduate assistants, have helped variously in the editorial process, including with the index.

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed the rapid growth of pentecostalism as the public face of Christianity in many parts of the world. With adherents currently estimated at five hundred millionnearly one-quarter of the worlds total Christianspentecostal growth shows no signs of abating as the twenty-first century progresses. Diverse yet recognizable expressions of corporate worship and music making are hallmark features of pentecostal spirituality across the broad reach of the movement. Music and worship practices have long served as key elements in the global reach of pentecostal Christianity, often accompanying conversions on a large scale, transforming existing institutions, and influencing churches across the spectrum of Christian belief and practice. Moving along pathways formed by mass mediation, migration, and missionization, pentecostal music and worship evidence and spur on religious globalization, as songs from influential pentecostal churchesand the record companies and media industry to which they are often intimately connectedmake their way into in churches across denominational lines. a term that refers both to a segment of pentecostal church services and to the musical practices and songs used within it, has become one of the most widely diffused Christian congregational worship styles and song repertoires worldwide. These songs and their associated worship practices travel around the world to be adopted, adapted, or resisted by Christians in a variety of local communities within and outside pentecostalism.