The Christian Century

Which global church? The Pentecostal World Fellowship and the WCC

The new Calvary Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was filled nearly to capacity as 3,710 Pentecostals gathered from 73 countries around the world. They came to this mostly Muslim country ...
Religion Dispatches

'How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World': An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States—one ...
Pew Research Center

Bibliography: Pentecostalism in Asia

Age, The. 2006. “India Low-caste Hindus Convert en Masse.”October 15. Anderson, Allan. 2004. An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity ...
Publishers Weekly

To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity

A professor at the University of Birmingham offers a comprehensive historical assessment of the phenomenal rise of global Pentecostalism. A former Pentecostal minister, Anderson nonetheless gives a ...
Voice of America

Global Study: Growing Pentecostal Churches Have Social Mission

Religion scholars say the fastest-growing form of Christianity is Pentecostalism, with its exuberant worship and belief in the so-called gifts of the Spirit, including speaking in tongues and divine ...