The Pentecostal World provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to a diverse expression of contemporary Christianity. Written by a team of international contributors, the volume is comprised of six sections, with each offering a critical perspective on classical themes in the study of Pentecostalism.

Michael Wilkinson is Professor of Sociology at Trinity Western University, Canada.

Jörg Haustein is Associate Professor of World Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Introduction: Remaking the Pentecostal World Michael Wilkinson and Jörg Haustein Part 1: Complicating "Roots": The Global/Local Nexus in Pentecostal History 1. The Glocalization of Pentecostal Religion: The Case of Chile Martin Lindhardt 2. No Eye Has Seen: The Local and Global in Writing Australasian Pneumatic Christianity Mark P. Hutchinson 3. One God, Many Movements: The Historical Narratives of Oneness Pentecostals Andrea Shan Johnson 4. On the Footsteps of the Faith: The Nineteenth Century Transnational Foundations of Latin American Pentecostalism Leonardo Marcondes Alves 5. Arrows Flying to the Five Continents: Hong Kong and the Pillars of Early Pentecostal Print Culture Alex Mayfield 6. Student Movements and Spiritual identity in the Growth of Pentecostalism in Kenya Kyama Mugambi Part 2: Abandoning "Waves": Localizing Pentecostal Historiography 7. Adversities and Peculiarities of Pentecostalism in Greece Evangelos Karagiannis 8. Russian Pentecostals: From the USSR to Post-Soviet Russia Vera Kliueva and Roman Poplavsky 9. The Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and the Birth of Indigenous Neo-Pentecostalism in Igboland, 1967-1980 Richard Burgess 10. A Revival Within a Revival: The 1940s-1950s Canadian Latter Rain Movement and Its Influence in Global Charismatic Christianity Michael McClymond 11. The Glocalization of the Assemblies of God during the Warlord Period in China Connie Au 12. A Brief Account of the Revival Movements among the Nagas in North East India Elungkiebe Zeliang Part 3: Contextualizing Spirituality: Pentecostal Demonology and Inter-religious Encounters 13. Toward a Globally Contextual Model of Demonology and Deliverance Candy Gunther Brown 14. The Historical Implications of Wimber's Theology of Healing and Deliverance Peter Althouse 15. The Contextuality of a Pentecostal Witchcraft Theology in Nigeria Judith Bachmann 16. It Takes Two to Tangle? A Comparative Approach to Pentecostal Mission(s) in Muslim Zanzibar Hans Olsson 17. Conversion and (Dis)Continuity among the Bhil Pentecostals of Rajasthan India Sarbeswar Sahoo 18. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America: Between Church institution and Popular Religion Jakob Egeris Thorsen Part 4: Problematizing Ethics: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Pentecostal Fragmentation 19. You Preach Like a Man: Beyond the Typical Gender Roles of Canadian Pentecostalism Linda M. Ambrose 20. Queering Black Pentecostalism in the United States Keri Day 21. Early Black-Led Pentecostal Interraciality as a Site for Theorizing Race David D. Daniels, III 22. Pentecostal Plurality and Sexual Politics in Africana Worlds Adriaan van Klinken 23. Female Pastoral Leadership, Ambivalent Femininities and African Pentecostalism in Belgium Joseph Bosco Bangura 24. Ideological Coloniality and Decolonizing Worship Practice at Hillsong Ntandoyenkosi Mlambo and Tanya Riches Part 5: Mapping Power: Pentecostal Flows of Politics and Prosperity 25. Prayer Warriors in Global Entanglements Giovanni Maltese 26. Grounding the Prosperity Gospel: Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana Karen Lauterbach and George M. Bob-Milliar 27. Pentecostalism and Global Development: Assessing Pentecostal Engagement with Social Development in Theory and Practice Christopher Wadibia 28. Zambian (Unruly) Pentecostalism Chammah J. Kaunda 29. The Many Faces of Pentecostal Politics: Socio-anthropological Approaches from the Southern Cone Nicolás Panotto 30. Pentecostal Complex in Poland: Missionaries, Migrants, and Social Imaginaries Natalia Zawiejska Part 6: Tracing Homogeneities: Media, Knowledge, and Institutions in the Making of Pentecostal Identity 31. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Pope Francis between Pastoral Openness and Ecclesiastical Centralization Valentina Ciciliot 32. What Role Does Ecumenism Play for Pentecostals? Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. 33. Consuming is Believing: Pentecostal Material Culture in Argentina Joaquín Algranti 34. Of Clouds and Cathedrals: Metaphor and Ambivalence in Charismatic Media Ideologies Travis Warren Cooper 35. Problematizing the Statistical Study of Global Pentecostalism: An Evaluation of David B. Barrett's Research Methodology Adam Stewart 36. Constructing Global Pentecostalism and the Role of the Academy Allan Heaton Anderson