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Foursquare Church By Tricia Ruggles
BOOKS
POPULAR PRIMARY SOURCES ABOUT THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH
McPherson, Aimee Semple. Give Me My Own God. New York: H.C. Kinsey, 1936.
__. In the Service of the King; The Story of My Life. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
__. The Foursquare Gospel. Los Angeles: Echo Park Evangelistic Association, 1946.
__. The Story of My Life. Waco: Word Books, 1973.
__. This Is That. New York: Garland, 1985.
Schmidt, Richard F.
Legal Aspects of Church Management. Los Angeles: International Church of
SCHOLARLY SECONDARY SOURCES ABOUT THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH
Albanese, Catherine L., ed. American Spiritualities: A Reader. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.
Albrecht, Daniel E. Rites in the Spirit: A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality. Sheffield: Sheffield AP, 1999.
Bahr, Robert. Least of All Saints: The Story of Aimee Semple McPherson. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Carper, James C. and Thomas C. Hunt, eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States: A Source Book. New York: Garland, 1996.
Eim, Yeol Soo. The Worldwide Expansion of the Foursquare Church. Ann Arbor: U.M.I, 1986.
Epstein, Daniel Mark. Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.
Grindstaff, Roy Arthur. The Institutionalizing of Aimee Semple McPherson: A Study in the Rhetoric of Social Intervention. Ann Arbor: U.M.I, 1990.
Rudolph, L.C. Hoosier Faiths: A History of Indiana Churches and Religious Groups. Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1995.
Wilson, Brian R. Sects and Society; A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science, and Christadelphians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
POPULAR SECONDARY SOURCES ABOUT THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH
Austin, Alvyn. Aimee Semple McPherson. Don Mills, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1980.
Blumhofer, Edith L. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1993.
Douglas, George. Women of the 20s. Dallas: Saybrook, 1986.
Hadden, Jeffrey K. and Charles E. Swann. Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981.
Hayford, Jack W. The Church on the Way: Learning to Live in the Promise of Biblical Congregation Life. Lincoln, VA: Chosen Books, 1982.
Leighton, Isabel. The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.
Magee, Charles H. Antics of Aimee: The Poetical Tale of a Kidnapped Female. Los Angeles: Pacific Magazine Agency, 1926.
Magida, Arthur J. and Stuart M. Matlins, eds. How to be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People’s Religious Ceremonies. Woodstock: SkyLight Paths, 1999.
Partner, Margaret. A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings on Women of Faith. Grand Rapids: F.H. Revell, 2000.
Pullum, Stephen Jackson. “Foul demons, come out!”: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Faith Healing. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Ross, Ishbel. Charmers and Cranks: Twelve Famous American Women Who Defied the Conventions. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
Thomas, Lately. Storming Heaven: The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow, 1970.
Thomas, Lately. The Vanishing Evangelist: The Aimee Semple McPherson Kidnapping Affair. New York: The Viking Press, 1959.
Williams, Brad. Legendary Women of the West. New York: D. McKay, 1978.
ARTICLES
SCHOLARLY SECONDARY SOURCES ABOUT THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH
Amstutz, John L. “Foursquare Missions: Doing More With Less.” Pneuma 16 (1994): 63-80.
Barfoot, Charles H. and Gerald T. Sheppard. “Prophetic vs. Priestly Religion: the Changing Role of Women Clergy in Classical Pentecostal Churches.” Review of Religious Research 22 (1980): 2-17.
Blumhofer, Edith L. “Aimee Semple McPherson and the Decisive Wichita Meeting: The Assemblies of God in the Roaring Twenties Wanted to Know: “Is Sister McPherson Pentecostal?” Assemblies of God Heritage 13 (1993): 18-21, 25-27.
__. “Canada’s gift to the sawdust trail”: the Canadian face of Aimee Semple McPherson.” Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience (1997): 387-402, 514-516.
__. “Reflections on the Source of Aimee Semple McPherson’s Voice.” Pneuma 17 (1995): 21-24.
__. “Sister.” Christian History 17 (1998): 31-35.
__. “Sister McPherson: St. Louis Host to 1921 Salvation-Healing Meetings.” Assemblies of God Heritage 15 (1995): 5-8.
Bode, Carl. “Lloyd Douglas: Loud Voice in the Wilderness.” American Quarterly 2 (1950): 340-352.
Brazil, John R. “Murder Trials, Murder, and Twenties America.” American Quarterly 33 (1981): 163-184.
Coffing, Karen B. “Character & Personality: Phoebe.” Fides et Historia 28 (1996): 48-67.
Cornwall, Robert D. “Primitivism and the Redefinition of Dispensationalism in the Theology of Aimee Semple McPherson.” Pneuma 14 (1992): 23-42.
Davis, Russell H. “Calling a Divine Summons: Biblical and Depth Psychological Perspectives.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 51 (1997): 131-143.
Dwyer, Jeffrey W., Leslie L. Clarke and Michael K. Miller. “The Effect of Religious Concentration and Affiliation of County Cancer Mortality Rates.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 31 (1990): 185-202.
Foster, Barry M. “The Vine and the Branches: A History of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.” Pneuma 17 (1995): 287-290.
Hutcheson, John D., Jr. and George A. Taylor. “Religious Variables, Political System Characteristics, and Policy Outputs in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science 17 (1973): 414-421.
Klaus, Byron D. “Pentecostal Missiology.” Pneuma 16 (1994): 3-100.
Lichter, Daniel T., Diane K. McLaughlin and David C. Ribar. “Welfare and the Rise in Female-Headed Families.” American Journal of Sociology 103 (1997): 112-143.
Mitchell, Nathan. “Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944): Evangelist and Innovator.” Liturgy Digest 1 (1994): 44-77.
Robeck, Cecil M. “Pentecostal Spirituality.” Pneuma 14 (1992): 103-197.
Setta, Susan M. “Patriarchy and feminism in conflict: the life and thought of Aimee Semple McPherson.” Anima 9 (1983): 128-137.
Sutton, Matthew A. “‘Between the Refrigerator and the Wildfire’: Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy.” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture March (2003): 159-188.
Townsend, Gregg D. “The Material Dream of Aimee Semple McPherson: A Lesson in Pentecostal Spirituality.” Pneuma 14 (1992): 171-183.
Veysey, Laurence R. “Myth and Reality in Approaching American Regionalism.” American Quarterly 12 (1960): 31-43.
POPULAR SECONDARY RESOURCES ABOUT THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH
Bryant, John. “Citizens of a World to Come: Melville and the Millennial Cosmopolite.” American Literature 59 (1987): 20-36.
Chiswick, Carmel U. and Evelyn L. Lehrer. “Religion as a Determinant of Marital Stability.” Demography 30 (1993): 385-404.
Cox, Stephen. “Only in America.” Cross Currents 45 (1995/1996): 543-547.
“Foursquare Anniversary: In Love With Aimee.” Christianity Today 38 (March 30, 1973): 50-51.
Pierce, J. Kingston. “The Abduction of Aimee.” American History 34 (2000): 42-51.
Schwarz, Frederic D. “1922.” American Heritage 48 (1997): 95-98.
COMPUTER RESOURCES
POPULAR PRIMARY SOURCES Official websites by the Foursquare Church:
Aimee Semple McPherson A website maintained by Roberts Liardon Ministries, has extensive information on the founder of the Foursquare Church. http://www.aimeesemplemcpherson.org
Foursquare Missions International Official website maintained by the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel that details it’s missions around the world. Includes prayer information, resources, mission opportunities within the denomination, and top news headlines.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel The official website for the denomination, includes history of the church, missions opportunities, resources, pastoral information, and contact information.
National Foursquare Department of Christian Education This website is the official site for the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel’s education division. It contains information about their core values in education, conferences, the curricula, a Christian school list, and other education resources.
Individual articles posted on the Internet by members of the Foursquare Church:
Aimee Semple McPherson Resource Center A website that is not officially affiliated with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. It contains an extensive amount of information including an opportunity to purchase Aimee’s books and resources. http://members.aol.com/xbcampbell/asm/indexasm.htm
The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel An article connected to the Networld-Voyager site that is maintained by a member of the Foursquare Church. Contains the spirit and philosophy of the denomination and meaning of the Foursquare symbol. http://www.networld-voyager.com/foursquare/foursquare.htm
POPULAR SECONDARY SOURCES Individual articles posted on the Internet by newspapers, magazines, etc. that are written by someone other than a member of the Foursquare Church, ex-Foursquare Church member, conservative Christian, or skeptic:
Aimee Semple McPherson This is an article about Aimee Semple McPherson on the Historical Society of Southern California’s main website. Contains a short biography of her and was contributed by Albert Greenstein in 1999. http://www.socialhistory.org/Biographies/mcpherson.htm
Group Watch: International Church of the Foursquare Gospel This article contains information compiled by the Interhemispheric Resource Center. Contains detailed information about the Foursquare Church broken down into pertinent sections. http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-69.htm
Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson This article contains information about the popular kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson. It is linked to the University of Southern California. http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/aimee.html
SCHOLARLY SECONDARY SOURCES Websites about the Foursquare Church by scholars of religion:
Aimee Semple McPherson This website is managed by Anna Robertson, a student at University of Virginia, in 1999. Contains information about Aimee’s life, religion, and media and contains a photo gallery and slide show of Aimee’s life. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/robertson/asm/front.html
About Aimee Semple McPherson This website contains bibliographical information about the Foursquare Church’s founder by a female historian, Jone Johnson Lewis. Contains links to other articles about Aimee Semple McPherson. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_aimee_semple_mcpherson.htm
Articles about the Foursquare Church by identifiable scholars of religion:
CHPS: Aimee Semple McPherson This article contains a little information on her but includes a link to purchase one of her books. It is contributed by the Christian Historical Preservation Society. http://www.christianhistory.org/mcpherson.html
FourSquare Gospel Church This is an article that contains general and advanced information about Aimee Semple McPherson and the Foursquare Church. The website is connected with the BELIEVE project, a religious information source website. http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/text/foursqua.htm
Religious Movements Homepage: International Church of the Foursquare Gospel This is a compilation of detailed information about the Foursquare Church, with links to other Foursquare sites. http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Foursqu.html
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