John Maiden is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at The Open University in the United Kingdom. He has published widely on evangelical and charismatic movements in the twentieth century. He lives in Manchester, England.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Potential


• 3: Pentecost


• 4: Mediation


• 5: Body


• 6: Imagination


• 7: World


• 8: Legacy

How did charismatic renewal transform the churches in the twentieth century, moving from the periphery to the mainstream? In Age of the Spirit, John Maiden looks at the rise of charismatic Christianity before, during, and after the 'long 1960s' across the English-speaking world.