The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism Volume One: North America

This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names movements and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness Pentecostal Charismatic Neo-Pentecostal and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition the dictionary contains entries on the important people places events and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism.