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The study reported here was stimulated by a colleague who was asked to give a critical reading to the first draft of my Tongues of Men and Angels. He felt, in spite of the fact that my avowed goal was a sociolinguistic one (to describe what glossolalia is and how it is used in the Pentecostal movement), that I should have said more about the culture in which speaking in tongues took place. What he wanted was an ethnography of Pentecostal groups. In explaining his criticism, he made claims that I took as hypotheses, because they were based on impressions he had received from certain (and local) Pentecostal groups. To test them was the goal of this investigation.
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Samarin, W.J. (1973). Religious Motives in Religious Movements. In: Dux, G., Luckmann, T., Matthes, J. (eds) Zur Theorie der Religion / Sociological Theories of Religion. Internationales Jahrbuch für Religionssoziologie / International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, vol 8. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14253-9_5
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