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charismatic movement
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charismatic movement

Late 20th-century movement within the Christian church that emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the individual believer and in the life of the church. It is related to the Pentecostal movement.

The movement emerged in California, USA, in the 1960s, and was named after its practice of charismatic worship, a form of informal and uninhibited worship in which the gifts of the Holy Spirit, including healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues (glossolalia), are made evident.



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Many pentecostals and charismatic Christians trace their spiritual heritage to this Azusa Street revival--when the Holy Spirit was made manifest through ecstatic worship, getting happy, healings, the "suspension in holy silence," and particularly speaking in tongues.
The term Charismatic is sometimes used in a narrow sense to distinguish the Charismatic Christians within non-Pentecostal denominations from Christians belonging to Pentecostal churches.
A state prison inmate who was a Charismatic Christian brought a suit claiming that a prison violated his constitutional rights by failing to use his new religiously-inspired name and to honor his dietary requests.
 
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