‘Some will see miracles’: The reception of Morris Cerullo world evangelism in Britain

Schaefer, Nancy A.

doi:10.1080/13537909908580855

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Morris Cerullo's London revivals as ‘Glocal’ (neo‐)pentecostal movement events

Schaefer¹

2002

Culture and Religion

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Morris Cerullo's London revivals as ‘Glocal’ (neo‐)pentecostal movement events

Schaefer¹

2002

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The BBC and an American 'Faith Healer': The Making of a Folk Devil?

Schaefer¹

2002

Journal of Contemporary Religion

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Morris Cerullo is an American healing revivalist who came to public attention in the UK during the 1990s. The paper looks at the portrayal of the controversial 'faith healer' and his 1992 Mission to London revival by the BBC's religion documentary series Heart of the Matter (HOTM). The evidence suggests that HOTM's coverage contained the key elements which are associated with 'moral panic' reporting: exaggeration and distortion, prediction, and symbolism. While the question of whether a panic over Cerullo was generated has been considered elsewhere, the focus here is narrowed in order to examine the BBC's role in labelling the evangelist as a contemporary 'folk devil'. The paper explores how and why this occurred and why it is problematic.

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Waiting for Antichrist

Thompson¹

2005

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This book explores how members of one religious group with a strong apocalyptic tradition — Kensington Temple, a large Pentecostal church in London — reconciled doctrines of the end of the world with the demands of their everyday lives. It is shown that they subjected these doctrines to a process of scrutiny, moderating and marginalizing them in response to a so-called the “Problem of the End”, the tendency of apocalyptic discourse to predict things that do not happen. In doing so, they employed the same subjective rationality that they applied to all manner of risky religious claims, such as those relating to miraculous healing. In effect, they were testing hypotheses not in a scientific fashion, but according to the dictates of common sense. These findings are difficult to reconcile with the notion that there is a single psychological or material cause of millenarianism.

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‘Some will see miracles’: The reception of Morris Cerullo world evangelism in Britain

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Morris Cerullo's London revivals as ‘Glocal’ (neo‐)pentecostal movement events

Morris Cerullo's London revivals as ‘Glocal’ (neo‐)pentecostal movement events

The BBC and an American 'Faith Healer': The Making of a Folk Devil?

Waiting for Antichrist

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