Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh is associate professor of religious studies at Azusa Pacific University. She is the author of the award-winning Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society (Columbia, 2003).

Pentecostals in America is a lively thematic exploration of Pentecostal believers across the twentieth century and into our own time. With a keen ear and an acute sensitivity toward the stories that tie worshipers to this eclectic and powerfully embodied tradition, Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh insightfully scrutinizes the faith and practices of Pentecostal women and men. She attends closely to a diverse cast of noted leaders as well as contemporary outliers who stretch the boundaries of the tradition, analyzing important factors such as gender and sexuality ideals, popular culture, and race and ethnicity. A smart, compelling, and entertaining analysis of a homegrown American religion that has become a global force.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pentecostal Faith and Practice2. Pentecostal Innovators3. Gender, Sexualities, and Pentecostalism4. Pentecostalism and Popular Culture5. “Laundry Talk”: Race, Ethnicity, and the Construction of an American Pentecostal Identity6. Outliers: Heresy and American PentecostalismEpilogue. A Whole New Thing—The Future of Pentecostalism in AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex

Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh is associate professor of religious studies at Azusa Pacific University. She is the author of the award-winning Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society (Columbia, 2003).

Pentecostals in America is a lively thematic exploration of Pentecostal believers across the twentieth century and into our own time. With a keen ear and an acute sensitivity toward the stories that tie worshipers to this eclectic and powerfully embodied tradition, Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh insightfully scrutinizes the faith and practices of Pentecostal women and men. She attends closely to a diverse cast of noted leaders as well as contemporary outliers who stretch the boundaries of the tradition, analyzing important factors such as gender and sexuality ideals, popular culture, and race and ethnicity. A smart, compelling, and entertaining analysis of a homegrown American religion that has become a global force.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pentecostal Faith and Practice2. Pentecostal Innovators3. Gender, Sexualities, and Pentecostalism4. Pentecostalism and Popular Culture5. “Laundry Talk”: Race, Ethnicity, and the Construction of an American Pentecostal Identity6. Outliers: Heresy and American PentecostalismEpilogue. A Whole New Thing—The Future of Pentecostalism in AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex