Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South

by Randall J. Stephens (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $35.65

  Pentecostalism claims nearly 500 million followers worldwide. An early stronghold was the American South, where believers spoke in unknown tongues, worshipped in free-form churches, and broke down social barriers that had long divided traditional Protestants. Pentecostalism came to the South following the post-Civil War holiness revival.