Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University Bloomington) will deliver the 2024–25 Cushwa Center Lecture, “Francis S. MacNutt and the Globalization of Charismatic Christianity,” in 215–16 McKenna Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 4, 2024.
Brown received a Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2023 for a biography of Francis MacNutt, to be published in the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series. More recently, she secured a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers in support of the book.
The Cushwa Center recently interviewed Brown about her research on MacNutt and the dramatic growth of charismatic Christianity over the past half century.
This event is free and open to all.
About the speaker
Candy Gunther Brown is professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A historian and ethnographer of religion and culture, her research and writing have dealt with evangelical print culture and U.S. evangelicalism; global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, science, medicine, and religion; and religious practices related to alternative healing, including yoga and mindfulness. Past projects have received support from, among other sources, the John Templeton Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
Image: Candy Gunther Brown, left; Francis MacNutt, right, at Notre Dame Stadium on June 14, 1974 (courtesy of Notre Dame Archives).
