Writing the Pentecostal history of Africa,Asia and Latin America |
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Authors: | Allan Anderson |
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Institution: | Reader in Pentecostal Studies, Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion , University of Birmingham , Birmingham, B29 6LQ, UK |
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Abstract: | This article examines the writing of Pentecostal history and in particular, the biases and presuppositions associated with it. The problem of sources and the neglect of the important role of indigenous (‘native’) workers in the historiography of Pentecostalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America is the main focus. It refutes the idea of an American ‘Jerusalem’ and urges a rewriting of this history from the perspective of those who ‘received’ the Pentecostal missionaries from the West. |
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