Pentecostalism
A living tradition within Protestantism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Pentecostalism is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written classical Pentecostalism, Apostolic Faith movement.
Origin
Founders named in the sources: Charles Fox Parham, William J. Seymour. Founding date given as 1901. Britannica dates the watershed to 1 January 1901 at Bethel Bible College, Topeka, Kansas, under Charles Fox Parham, when Agnes Ozman spoke in an unknown tongue; Parham held glossolalia to be the initial evidence of baptism with the Holy Spirit. National expansion began at the Apostolic Faith Gospel Mission on Azusa Street, Los Angeles, in 1906 under William J. Seymour, an African American former Holiness preacher and follower of Parham.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Pentecostalism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-pentecostalism.
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title = {Pentecostalism},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.