The invisibility of women in historical research is a problem that requires dedicated attention and concrete efforts to overcome. This book aims to make a small contribution toward this goal by shedding light on the significant contributions of Scandinavian women in early Pentecostalism. The authors of this volume bring to light the stories of mostly unknown female Pentecostal pioneers and how they shaped their respective movements and Pentecostalism internationally. The stories range from key leaders, like Laura Barratt and Anna Larssen Bjorner in Norway and Denmark, to obscure ‘apostles’ in the Arctic regions, like Alma Halse and Gerda Astrom, to missionaries in Africa and Brazil, like Hilda Backlund, Linnea Halldorf, Ingrid Lokken Chawner, and Frida Vingren. The stories provide a window into the challenges and possibilities of Pentecostal women at the turn of the twentieth century. These ’empowered voices’ have finally received an audience that they so deeply deserve.
About the author
Cecil M. Robeck Jr., an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, serves as senior professor of church history and ecumenics and special assistant to the president for ecumenical relations at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. For nine years, he served as the editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is the author of some 275 articles, a number of which are on patristic topics. His patristic work has been useful in the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue, which he has chaired since 1992. He is the author of two books and the editor or co-editor of five others, including, with Amos Yong, The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism (2014).
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