Have Pentecostalism, will travel
David Martin in the Times Literary Supplement
| 18 Sep 2008
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Pentecostalism is the contemporary religio-cultural phenomenon. It claims the exuberant gifts of the Spirit originally manifested on the first day of Pentecost as narrated in Acts 2, and it represents a global indigenization of the original Methodist “enthusiasm” that mobilized migrants in the Industrial Revolution.
It creates autonomous social capital for (say) a quarter of a billion migrants trekking to the contemporary megacity. Mainstream churches feel embarrassed and wary, just as established churches did faced with revival in eighteenth-century Britain and later on the American frontier.
The importance of this strand of Christianity is underlined by the Sarah Palin phenomenon. The electrifying effect of the Governor of Alaska on the Republican Party, on the American presidential election, and on white Evangelicals wary of John McCain, confounds assumptions about the unimportance of the name on the bottom of the ticket.
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