African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement
Kirsch, Thomas, African Studies Review
David Maxwell. African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement. Athens: Ohio UniversityPress/ Oxford: James Currey, 2006. xv + 250 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Sources and Refereces. Index. $26.95. Paper.
As has repeatedly been pointed out, the center of gravity of world Christianity in recent decades has shifted away from Europe and the United States to Latin America and Africa, a process that in an intriguing way coincides with an increase in importance of Charismatic and Pentecostal churches.
David Maxwell's African Gifts of the Spirit is a timely contribution to the study of these developments. At the …
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Publication information:
Article title: African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement.
Contributors: Kirsch, Thomas - Author.
Journal title: African Studies Review.
Volume: 50.
Issue: 3
Publication date: December 2007.
Page number: 205+.
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