Demons and Tongues

About this book

The sound of unfamiliar tongues at a religious gathering can be understood as a sign of grace or a reason for alarm. Alma White approached the new Pentecostal movement with deep suspicion.

Demons and Tongues presents her religious criticism of ecstatic speech, spiritual manifestations and claims to miraculous power. The book belongs to an intense early twentieth-century dispute between Christian groups, and its judgments are fiercely partisan. It captures a moment when experiences celebrated by one community could be condemned by another as dangerous deception.