Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pentecostalism and the globalization of illness and healing / Candy Gunther Brown -- The global character of nineteenth-century divine heal ing / Heather D. Curtis -- Why health and wealth? : dimensions of prosp erity among Swedish Charismatics / Simon Coleman -- Material salvation : healing, deliverance, and "breakthrough" in African migrant churches in Germany / Claudia Wèahrisch-Oblau -- Blessed bodies : healing within the African American faith movement / Catherine Bowler -- Jesus as the great physician : Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemb lies of God and new understandings of Pentecostal healing / Angela Tara ngo -- Latino Pentecostal healing in the North American Borderlands / G astâon Espinosa -- Santidad, salvaciâon, sanidad, liberaciâon : the wor d of faith movement among twenty-first century Latina/o Pentecostals / Arlene Sâanchez Walsh -- Exorcising the demons of deprivation : divine healing and conversion in Brazilian Pentecostalism / R. Andrew Chesnut -- The salve of divine healing : essential rituals for survival among w orking-class Pentecostals in Bogotâa, Colombia / Rebecca Pierce Bomann -- Learning from the master : Carlos Annacondia and the standardization of Pentecostal practices in and beyond Argentina / Matthew Marostica - - New wine in an old wine bottle? Charismatic healing in the mainline c hurches in Ghana / Cephas N. Omenyo -- Healing in African Pentecostalis m : the "victorious living" of David Oyedepo / Paul Gifford -- Reenchan ted : divine healing in Korean Protestantism / Sean C. Kim -- Miracle h ealing and exorcism in South Indian Pentecostalism / Michael Bergunder -- Divine healing and the growth of practical Christianity in China / G otthard Oblau -- Catholic charismatic healing in global perspective : t he cases of India, Brazil, and Nigeria / Thomas J. Csordas -- Global aw akening : divine healing networks and global community in North America , Brazil, Mozambique, and beyond / Candy Gunther Brown.