Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture

Crisis and Faith: Urban Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States

“…Pentecostalism was born there during the Azusa Street revival in 1906. 3 In the 1920s, the most charismatic female preacher of the century, Aimee Semple McPherson, made Los Angeles her home and the large-capacity Angelus Temple in Echo Park her sanctuary. 4 Catholicism thrived in Mexican American neighborhoods.…”