Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-344) and index.

Precedents in early charismatic movements, 1900-1960s -- Oriki : gen ealogy and identity in Pentecostal historiography -- Bakuzufu : contest ed identities and the quest for power in African Christianity -- Moya : African charismatic initiatives and classical Pentecostal missionaries -- Mademoni : African-instituted churches in Pentecostal rhetoric -- T he modern Pentecostal movement,1970s-1990s -- Aliliki : charismatic res urgence of the 1970s -- The big man of the big God : Pentecostalism, me dia, and popular culture in the 1980s -- Elijah's mantle : Pentecostal re-evangelization of Africa in the 1990s -- Gendered charisma : charism a and women in African Pentecostalism -- Pentecostalism in the African public space -- Sankofa : Pentecostalism in the African map of the univ erse -- Masters on horses : the roots of Pentecostal public ethics -- T embisa : Pentecostal political theology and practices -- Child of the b ondwoman : Islam and Sharia in Pentecostal rhetoric -- Pentecostal word s and worlds -- Standing on the Word : Pentecostal theologies -- Revers e flow : Pentecostalism and immigrant African Christianity.