Contents

• Precedents in early charismatic movements, 1900-1960s
• Oriki : genealogy and identity in Pentecostal historiography
• Bakuzufu : contested identities and the quest for power in African Christianity
• Moya : African charismatic initiatives and classical Pentecostal missionaries
• Mademoni : African-instituted churches in Pentecostal rhetoric
• The modern Pentecostal movement, 1970s-1990s
• Aliliki : charismatic resurgence of the 1970s
• The big man of the big God : Pentecostalism, media, and popular culture in the 1980s
• Elijah’s mantle : Pentecostal re-evangelization of Africa in the 1990s
• Gendered charisma : charisma and women in African Pentecostalism
• Pentecostalism in the African public space
• Sankofa : Pentecostalism in the African map of the universe
• Masters on horses : the roots of Pentecostal public ethics
• Tembisa : Pentecostal political theology and practices
• Child of the bondwoman : Islam and Sharia in Pentecostal rhetoric
• Pentecostal words and worlds
• Standing on the Word : Pentecostal theologies
• Reverse flow : Pentecostalism and immigrant African Christianity