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Faces of Pentecostalism in North India Today

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Pentecostal revivals in India have been recorded since 1860, and Pentecostalism is flourishing in the subcontinent today. Yet this phenomenon is neither simple nor monolithic. Rather, it interacts with other Christian traditions and with other religious traditions in a number of different ways. Despite its rigid and exclusivistic rhetoric, Pentecostalism functions as a highly malleable and adaptable religious movement.

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    Arun W. Jones

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Jones, A.W. Faces of Pentecostalism in North India Today. Soc 46, 504–509 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-009-9264-z

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