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Makes a significant contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism, above all by gathering together the work of such high-quality researchers, and offering a context in which to think across their scholarship in one place. -John Burdick, Syracuse University

As I would expect from two such accomplished editors, this volume is an outstanding contribution... The introduction alone is worth the price of the book. -Brian Howell,Wheaton College [I]t does offer some fresh perspectives and analyses of charismatic Christianity around the world and helps establish the anthropology of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism as a valid and indeed crucial specialty for the modern world, while usefully challenging some tired assumptions about Protestantism, Christianity, or for that matter religion. -Anthropology Review Database Makes a significant contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism, above all by gathering together the work of such high-quality researchers, and offering a context in which to think across their scholarship in one place. -John Burdick,Syracuse University

""As I would expect from two such accomplished editors, this volume is an outstanding contribution. . . . The introduction alone is worth the price of the book."" -- Brian Howell,Wheaton College ""Makes a significant contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism, above all by gathering together the work of such high-quality researchers, and offering a context in which to think across their scholarship in one place."" -- John Burdick,Syracuse University ""[I]t does offer some fresh perspectives and analyses of charismatic Christianity around the world and helps establish the anthropology of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism as a valid and indeed crucial specialty for the modern world, while usefully challenging some tired assumptions about Protestantism, Christianity, or for that matter religion."" * Anthropology Review Database *

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Simon Coleman (Editor) Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, and author of Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions and The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity. Rosalind I. J. Hackett (Editor) Rosalind I.J. Hackett is Professor and Head of Religious Studies, the University of Tennessee, where she is also adjunct Professor in Anthropology and Faculty Associate at the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy. She has received fellowships from Harvard University, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Pew Foundation. She has published extensively on religion in Africa, notably in the areas of new religious movements, art, gender, media, and conflict.

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