Table of Contents

Introduction
They Called Her "Sister": Aimee Semple McPherson
From "Sassafras Country Boy" to World-Renown Preacher: Revivalist William Branham
"God's Man for this Hour": Oral Roberts
"God's Man of Faith and Power": Asa Alonzo Allen
Akron's Idiosyncratic Evangelist and Faith Healer: Ernest Angley
The Red-Haired "Preacher Lady" from Concordia, Missouri: Kathryn Kuhlman
They Call Him "Pastor": Benny Hinn
Their Speech Betrayeth Them
Index

Promotional Information

Examines the rhetorical genre of 20th-century American faith healing.

About the Author

STEPHEN J. PULLUM is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He has published numerous articles on religious rhetoric, and he is a former associate editor of the Journal of Communication and Religion.

Reviews

?[a] significant contribution to scholarship addressing ministerial work of individuals in the pentecostal movement, which has until fairly recently been negelected by the academic community. His analysis of rhetorical style and techniques, however, it is truly groundbreaking and will serve as a springboard for further research. Pullman's comparison of Biblical and modern "miracles" is especially useful because he makes the comparison not as an apologist or as a debater, but as a thoughtful academic.?-Florida College

?Besides being well research and written in captivating prose (together with some good photographs), the author has managed to capture a sense of that wildly diverse entity, the relationship between audience and faith healer....Pullum has contributed to the field of historical homiletics by asking preachers to consider rhetorically just how, why, and for whom faith-healing rhetoric is used and whyit enjoys such popularity.?-Homiletic

"Ýa¨ significant contribution to scholarship addressing ministerial work of individuals in the pentecostal movement, which has until fairly recently been negelected by the academic community. His analysis of rhetorical style and techniques, however, it is truly groundbreaking and will serve as a springboard for further research. Pullman's comparison of Biblical and modern "miracles" is especially useful because he makes the comparison not as an apologist or as a debater, but as a thoughtful academic."-Florida College

"Besides being well research and written in captivating prose (together with some good photographs), the author has managed to capture a sense of that wildly diverse entity, the relationship between audience and faith healer....Pullum has contributed to the field of historical homiletics by asking preachers to consider rhetorically just how, why, and for whom faith-healing rhetoric is used and whyit enjoys such popularity."-Homiletic

"[a] significant contribution to scholarship addressing ministerial work of individuals in the pentecostal movement, which has until fairly recently been negelected by the academic community. His analysis of rhetorical style and techniques, however, it is truly groundbreaking and will serve as a springboard for further research. Pullman's comparison of Biblical and modern "miracles" is especially useful because he makes the comparison not as an apologist or as a debater, but as a thoughtful academic."-Florida College