Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond the sawdust trail : the dynamics of global revival -- Above the 38th parallel : Kil Sun Ju and the Korean revival of 1907 -- The Resurrection man : Joseph Babalola and the Aladura revival of 1930 -- Waking the dead : V.S. Azariah and the Dornakal revival in India -- Nothing but the blood : William Nagenda and the east Africa revival in Uganda -- Born again : Billy Graham and the revival of American evangelicalism -- Salt of the earth : Paulo Borges, Jr. and revival in Brazil -- New Jerusalems : Mensa Otabil, African Pentecostalism and reverse mission -- Taming the dragon : Zhang Rongliang and the Chinese house churches -- Rethinking revival : lessons from the story of world Christianity.

Mark Shaw's thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. We read the stories of Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival in Africa, of Kil Sun-Ju and the great Korean revival of 1907, of Paulo Borges Jr. and explosion of neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil, and of V. S. Azariah and the mass conversions of the Dalit people in India. --from publisher description