to intellectualize pentecostalism; I’m not out to disclose the propositional core of pentecostalism. Rather, I’m interested in mining and “reading” pentecostal spirituality in order to discern the “understanding” of the world that is implicit in these practices.21 Of course, that means one will best be able to appreciate and understand this project only if one also has some familiarity with the practices that make up the lived religious experience that is pentecostal spirituality. I cannot hope to
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