This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa, Kalu provides an alternative trans-national discourse that is sensitive to local identities, appropriations, and contestations of global processes.

In essay after essay in this volume, he demonstrates the courage to blaze a new path, offer new, bold insights, render prevailing discourse obsolete, and set sail a new one in the treacherous academic waters by shifting the terms, accent, and drift of the old one. As this set of sixteen essays shows, he researched profusely, argued trenchantly, and thought and taught powerfully to change how African Pentecostalism is portrayed, interpreted, and situated both within Christianity and within African traditional religions. In all this, he is not simply correcting distorted scholarship, but also altering the way Africans are portrayed in Western scholarship.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Wilhelmina J. Kalu (Nee Dowuona-Hammond) has a PhD in Educational Psychology with interest in Special Education. She was President of the African Association for Pastoral Studies and Counseling for several years until 2005. More recently she has taught as Adjunct Faculty at McCormick Theological Seminary and Center for African American Theological Studies in Chicago as well as other courses at the Progressive Bible Institute, Chicago. She is engaged in finding non-traditional ways of teaching and mentoring Women and Youth in relationship. She has over 65 publications. She is the widow of late Prof. Ogbu U. Kalu and has four children.

Nimi Wariboko is the Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, Massachusetts. He is the author of ten books, including The Depth and Destiny of Work: An African Theological Interpretation (2008), God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World (2008), and The Principle of Excellence: A framework for Social Ethics (2009).

Toyin Falola is the University Teaching Distinguished Professor, University of Texas at Austin and the Mwalimu Nyerere Chair of Modern African History, Benue State University. He has authored and edited over a hundred books, many of which are published by the Africa World Press.

CATEGORY
History, Religious Studies/AFRICA