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Christianity is vibrant and growing in the non-western “majority” world and Christianity is changing as a result. Pachuau surveys the current trending approaches to recognizing and investigating “world Christianity” and explores the salient features of the demographic changes that mark a measurable shift in the center of gravity from the northwest part of the globe to the southern continents....

While some of the churches have their roots in the Azusa Street revivals of Los Angeles (USA), most are locally initiated. Like the Pentecostal churches in Latin America discussed above, local initiatives and adaptation rates are high even among those founded elsewhere. Most are truly indigenized. Among the larger groups, some—like the Assemblies of God—originated in the US, with others like Deeper Christian Life Ministry founded by Africans and spreading throughout Africa and other parts of the