geographical, and confessional variances of the movement.5 In this book, Pentecostalism refers in a broad sense to the complex diversity of classical Pentecostals, the charismatic movement, and Pentecostal or ‘Pentecostal-like’ independent churches.6 A prominent perspective is that of the New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, which identifies as ‘Pentecostal’ the so-called classical Pentecostals connected with the revival at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles