The future of glossolalia: Fundamentalist or experientialist

Religion

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-244

  Cartledge, Revd Mark J ^a  

^a Anglican Chaplaincy   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0013134785     PISSN: 0048721X     EISSN: 10961151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reli.1998.0131     Document Type: Article

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21. For comment of the ‘re-mystification’ of worship by means of glossolalia and prophecy see M. B. McGuire, ‘The Social Context of Prophecy: “Word-Gifts” of the Spirit Among Catholic Pentecostals’, Review of Religious Research 18 (1977), pp. 144–5.
22. A. Walker, Telling the Story, London, SPCK. See pp. 167–70 for comments on the privatization of religion within postmodernity.
23. Although it must be noted that the use of the word ‘ecstasy’ in relation to glossolalia and modernity is not new and predates discussion of postmodernity; see O. R. Whitley, ‘When You Speak in Tongues: Some Reflections on the Contemporary Search for Ecstasy’, Encounter 35 (1974), pp. 81–94.
24. D.-L. Sequeira, ‘Gifts of Tongues and Healing: The Performance of the Charismatic Renewal’, Text and Performance Quarterly 14 [1994], p. 139.
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29. I am conscious that postmodernity is far from universally accepted among academics. See, for example, P. A. Mellor and C. Shilling, ‘Reflexive Modernity and the Religious Body’, Religion 24 (1994), pp. 23–42
30. See: I. H. Marshall, ‘Are Evangelicals Fundamentalists?’, Vox Evangelica 22 (1992), pp. 7–24
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