Most cited papers in Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
What are the most cited papers in Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies?
The most cited paper in Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies is "Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity" (John J. McCarthy, Alan Prince, 1995), with 1,620 citations. Next come "Christian moderns freedom and fetish in the mission encounter" (1,497) and "The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity" (818).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 62 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity John J. McCarthy, Alan Prince · Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) | 1995 | 1,620 |
| 2 | Christian moderns freedom and fetish in the mission encounter Webb Keane | 2007 | 1,497 |
| 3 | The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Joel Robbins · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2004 | 818 |
| 4 | 'Make a Complete Break With the Past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse' Birgit Meyer · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 501 |
| 5 | Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America Paul Gifford, André Cortèn, Ruth Marshall-Fratani · Africa | 2003 | 375 |
| 6 | convicted by the holy spirit: the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion Susan Harding · American Ethnologist | Feb 1987 | 349 |
| 7 | Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms Birgit Meyer · South Atlantic Quarterly | 27 Sep 2010 | 295 |
| 8 | Gender and society Allan Heaton Anderson · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 24 Oct 2013 | 288 |
| 9 | Theological roots of Pentecostalism Donald W. Dayton | 1987 | 264 |
| 10 | WHY WERE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS PERSECUTED?1 G. E. M. de Ste. Croix · Past & Present | 1963 | 261 |
| 11 | Mediating the Global and Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism Ruth Marshall-Fratani · Journal of Religion in Africa | 1998 | 255 |
| 12 | Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity Tanya Marie Luhrmann · American Anthropologist | Sep 2004 | 247 |
| 13 | On the paradoxes of global Pentecostalism and the perils of continuity thinking Joel Robbins · Religion | Jul 2003 | 224 |
| 14 | Saving the Creation: Christian Environmentalism in the United States Laurel D. Kearns · Sociology of Religion | 1996 | 222 |
| 15 | God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School Alan Peshkin, William H. Green · Journal of Research on Christian Education | Sep 1992 | 213 |
| 16 | America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Stephen H. Norwood, Claude S. Fischer · Journal of American History | Dec 1993 | 195 |
| 17 | China and the Christian Impact. A Conflict of Cultures Stephen Lyon Endicott · Pacific Affairs | Dec 1986 | 183 |
| 18 | Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty Robert M. Levine, R. Andrew Chesnut · The American Historical Review | Dec 1999 | 183 |
| 19 | Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global Modernity Ryan Dunch · History and Theory | Oct 2002 | 182 |
| 20 | Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana Birgit Meyer · Development and Change | Oct 1998 | 181 |
| 21 | The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts Larry W. Usilton · History Reviews of New Books | 2002 | 168 |
| 22 | Ghana's new christianity : pentecostalism in a globalising african economy Cédric Mayrargue · Critique internationale | 2005 | 167 |
| 23 | WHEN GOD TALKS BACK. UNDERSTANDING THE AMERICAN ENGANGELICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. ALFRED A KNOPF, NEW YORK. Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Reviewed by Hatib Abdul Kadir · Al-Albab | Dec 2012 | 166 |
| 24 | HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Yonathan Purnomo, Muner Daliman, Hana Suparti et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2025 | 164 |
| 25 | Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 Harry M. Caudill, Henry D. Shapiro · Journal of American History | Dec 1979 | 161 |
| 26 | Expansão pentecostal no Brasil: o caso da Igreja Universal Ricardo Mariano · Estudos Avançados | Dec 2004 | 158 |
| 27 | The Integral Role of Pastoral Counseling by African-American Clergy in Community Mental Health John L. Young, Ezra E. H. Griffith, David R. Williams · Psychiatric Services | 28 Apr 2003 | 156 |
| 28 | The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Frank C. Lambert, Harry S. Stout · Journal of American History | Sep 1992 | 150 |
| 29 | The People's Religion: American Faith in the 90's, by George Gallup, Jr. and Jim Castelli Andrew M. Greeley · Political Science Quarterly | 1990 | 143 |
| 30 | Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms Joel Robbins · Social Analysis | 2009 | 137 |
| 31 | An Atlantic Genealogy of “Spirit Possession” Paul C. Johnson · Comparative Studies in Society and History | 29 Mar 2011 | 135 |
| 32 | Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture Heather Hendershot · Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions | Aug 2006 | 132 |
| 33 | Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture R. Marie Griffith, Grant Wacker · Journal of American History | Jun 2002 | 132 |
| 34 | Church, World, and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology Nicholas M. Healy · Pro Ecclesia A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology | Nov 2003 | 131 |
| 35 | An Introduction to Pentecostalism H. Chad Hillier · Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses | Sep 2005 | 129 |
| 36 | The Greening of Religion Hypothesis (Part Two) Bron Raymond Taylor, Gretel Van Wieren, Bernard Daley Zaleha · Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture | Nov 2016 | 127 |
| 37 | Pentecostalism in Brazil: A Brief History Paul Freston · Religion | Apr 1995 | 124 |
| 38 | On the Trail of Voodoo: African Christianity in Africa and the Americas John Kelly Thornton · The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History | 1988 | 121 |
| 39 | New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism Vernon K. Robbins · Rhetorica | 1985 | 115 |
| 40 | Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Catherine A. Brekus, Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood · The Journal of Southern History | Aug 1999 | 115 |
| 41 | Understanding the "New" Black Pentecostal Activism: Lessons from Ecumenical Urban Ministries in Boston Omar M. McRoberts · Sociology of Religion | 1999 | 111 |
| 42 | The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters Bonnie Roos, R. S. Sugirtharajah · Journal of Biblical Literature | 2003 | 109 |
| 43 | THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE MAKING C. F. Evans · Cambridge University Press eBooks | Apr 1970 | 108 |
| 44 | “like a veil to cover them”: women and the Pentecostal movement in La Paz Lesley Gill · American Ethnologist | Nov 1990 | 107 |
| 45 | Sowing the Word: The Cultural Impact of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1804-2004 Andrew C. Porter · The English Historical Review | 28 Aug 2006 | 107 |
| 46 | A Child's Christmas in America: Santa Claus as Deity, Consumption as Religion Ressell W. Belk · The Journal of American Culture | Mar 1987 | 106 |
| 47 | In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance Foka van de Beek · Journal of Reformed Theology | 2011 | 105 |
| 48 | Apostle to the conquered: reimagining Paul's mission Oscar L. Cole-Arnal · Consensus | 2008 | 105 |
| 49 | Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic John Fisher, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1980 | 104 |
| 50 | New Mutations of the Protestant Ethic among Latin American Pentecostals Bernice Martin · Religion | Apr 1995 | 101 |
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