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Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom is packed with stimulating historical insights. But this is one of the most striking: Most “listings of major trends of the past centuryEhave “rightly devoted much space to political movements like fascism and communism, but ignored vital religious currents like Pentecostalism. Yet today, Fascists or Nazis are not easy to find, and Communists may be becoming an endangered species, while Pentecostals are flourishing around the globe. Since there were only a handful of Pentecostals in 1900, and several hundred million today, is it not reasonable to identify this perhaps the most successful social movement of the past century? According to current projections, the number of Pentecostal believers should surpass the one billion mark before 2050. In terms of the global religions, there will by that point be roughly as many Pentecostals as Hindus, and twice as many as there are Buddhists.E
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 10:52 AM
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