Were the Jesus People Pentecostals?
A Review of the Evidence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ptcs.v7i1.1Keywords:
Jesus Movement, neo-PentecostalismAbstract
This paper considers the nature of the short-lived Jesus People movement and its historical contribution to Christian revivalism by over-viewing the rather fragmented documentation provided by extant surveys, along with further contextual information and evidence provided by more recent sources.
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Anderson, R. (1980), Vision of the Inherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bainbridge, W. (1997), The Sociology of Social Movements. New York: Routledge.
Bellah, R. (1976), ‘New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis in Modernity’. In: Y. Glock and R. Bellah (eds.), The Consciousness Reformation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Bennett, D. (1970), Nine O’Clock in the Morning. Plainfield, NJ: Logos International.
Bodling, K. (1986), The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s as a Great Awakening. Unpublished M.S.T. thesis, Cordia Seminary.
Carr, O. (1973), ‘The Jesus Movement’. Pentecostal Evangel, 15th July, pp. 6-8.
Corten, A. and Marshall-Fratini, R. (2001), Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. London: Hurst & Company.
Craig, M. (1973), ‘The Jesus Movement in Britain’. Catholic Gazette, 63 (9), pp. 3-7.
Davies, H. (1972), Christian Deviations: The Challenge of the New Spiritual Movement. Fourth edition, Philadelphia, PE: Westminster Press.
Davis, R. (1978), Locus and Wild Honey: The Charismatic Renewal and the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: World Council of Churches.
Day, E. (1973), ‘What We Can Learn From the Jesus People’. Liguorian, 61 (3), pp. 2-5.
Di Sabatino, D. (1976), The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Biography and General Resource. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Ellwood, S. (1973), One Way: The Jesus Movement and Its Meaning. Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice-Hall.
Enroth, R. (1973), ‘Where Have All the Jesus People Gone?’. Eternity, October, pp. 14-15, 17, 28, 30.
Enroth, R., Erickson, R. Jr. and Breckinridge Peters, C. (1972), The Jesus People: Old-Time Religion in the Age of Aquarius. Grandrapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Fogel, R. (2000), The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Graham, B. (1972), ‘On the Jesus Movement’. Life and Work, 28 (5), pp. 10-11.
Herberg, W. (1971), ‘Conservatives and the Jesus Freaks’. New Guard, November, pp. 15-16.
Holt J. (1940), ‘Holiness Religion: Cultural Shock and Social Reorganization’. American Sociological Review, 5, October, pp. 740- 47.
Hunt, S. (1995), ‘The “Toronto Blessing”: A Rumour of Angels?’. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 10 (3), pp. 257-71.
_________ (forthcoming) ‘The Accidental Dispensationalists: The Case of the “Classical” Pentecostals’. In: M. Sweetham (ed.), Each Waiting Band: Aspects of Dispensational Spirituality, Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster.
Knight, W. (ed), (1971), Jesus People Come Alive. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale;
Lindsay, H. (1970), The Late Great Planet Earth. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing.
Lyra, S. Jr, (1973), ‘Rise and Development of the Jesus Movement’. Calvin Theological Journal, April, pp. 40-61.
Martin, D. (1990), Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Miller, D. (1997), Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Moody, J. (1972), ‘My Daughter Joined the Jesus People’. Christian Herald, February, pp. 12-24.
Nee, W. (1994) God’s Works. Christian Fellowship Publishers.
Neitz, M. (1987), Charisma and Community: A Study of Commitment Within Charismatic Renewal. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Books.
Nichol, J. (1966), Pentecostalism. New York: Harper & Row.
Palmer, S. (1998), Apostates and Their Role in the Construction of Grievance Claims Against the Northeast Kingdom/Messianic Communities. In: D. Bromley (ed.), The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Plowman, E. (1971), ‘The Jesus Movement: Now its in the Hamlets’. Christianity Today, 15, June, p. 4.
Pope L. (1942), Millhands and Preachers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Quebedeaux, R. (1983), The New Charismatics II. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Reid, A. (1995), ‘The Effect of the Jesus Movement on Evangelism in the Southern Baptist Convention’. Baptism History and Heritage, January, pp. 41-52.
Richardson, J. and Reddy, M. (1980), ‘Form and Fluidity in Two Contemporary Glossolalia Movements’. Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 4, pp. 183-220.
Robeck, C. Jr. (1999), Making Sense of Pentecostalism in a Global Context. Paper presented at the 28th meeting of the Society of Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MI, March, p. 18.
Stark, R. and Bainbridge, W. (1980), ‘Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation’. Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 4, pp. 85-119.
Smith, C. (1983), Charisma vs Charismania. HYML at Calvary Chapel.
Stones, C. (1978), ‘“Jesus People”: Fundamentalism and Changing Factors Associated with Conservatism’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 16, pp. 155-58.
Streiker, L. (1971), The Jesus Trip. Nashville, TE: Abingdon Press.
Tipton, S. (1982), Getting Saved From the Sixties. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Troeltsch, E. (1931), The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches. London: Allen & Unwin.
Wilkerson, D. (1970) The Cross and the Switchblade. New York: Zondervan.
Wilkerson, D. (1974) The Vision. Bedford, TX: Pryamid Publications
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2009-07-10
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Hunt, S. (2009). Were the Jesus People Pentecostals? A Review of the Evidence. PentecoStudies, 7(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1558/ptcs.v7i1.1
