Contact information
Name:
Robin Rinehart
Phone:
610-330-5520
Email:
rineharr@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights 104
Presenter:
Chad Bauman, Professor of Religion, Butler University
Price:
Free and open to all
Pentecostal Christianity in India: Megachurches, Conversion, and Supernatural Healing
Earl A. Pope Lecture in Global Christianity
Pentecostalism is taking over the Christian world, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This lecture considers how the growth of Pentecostalism in India manifests global trends (such as in the rise of megachurches and the prominence of spiritual healing in Pentecostal growth), while also considering issues unique to the Indian scene, for example in the anti-conversion backlash provoked by Pentecostal’s evangelization and rhetoric of cultural “rupture.”
Sponsored by:
Department of Religious Studies