Guides: HIS 218 & REL 218 Church History II: Reformation to the Present: Aimee Semple McPherson, 1890-1944

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Aimee Semple McPherson: everybody's sister by Edith L. Blumhofer
ISBN: 9780802837523
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
One of the most influential and dynamic evangelists of the twentieth century, Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) was a complex, lively, and controversial figure with a flair for the dramatic. Against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Sister Aimee, as she was widely known, cultivated her ministry, preaching the "old-fashioned gospel" and calling for a return to simple biblical Christianity.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926 by Chas H. Barfoot
ISBN: 9781138999169
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Pentecostalism was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a "tumble-down shack" in a rundown semi-industrial area of Los Angeles composed of a tombstone shop, saloons, livery stables and railroad freight yards. One hundred years later Pentecostalism has not only proven to be the most dynamic representative of Christian faith in the past century, but a transnational religious phenomenon as well.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton
ISBN: 9780674025318
Publication Date: 2007-04-30
Matthew Sutton's definitive study of Aimee Semple McPherson reveals the woman, most often remembered as the hypocritical vamp in Sinclair Lewis's 'Elmer Gantry', as a trail-blazing pioneer.
Limited Liberty : the legacy of four Pentecostal women pioneers by Estrelda Y. Alexander
ISBN: 0829817689
This book shares the stories of four women - Florence Crawford, Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Ida Robinson - who, despite their gender, pursued their freedom to preach and defend the Christian gospel. The author hopes clergywomen will find guidance and solutions in the stories of these courageous women.
The Great Revivalists in American Religion, 1740-1944 : the careers and theology of Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney, Dwight Moody, Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson by William H. Cooper
ISBN: 9780786460557
Publication Date: 2010-09-30

Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton
ISBN: 9780674027039
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.