I will concentrate on research themes in African Pentecostalism. As happened with the study of African Instituted Churches, theory has outstripped and stunned historical data. Discourses on modernity and globalism based on limited data from urban manifestations of the movement have skewed the representation of African Pentecostalism. Tourist scholars have drawn large conclusions and profiles from minimal data-the type of scholarship and research method that could hardly pass muster in the western world. The first focus of research will be a call for a ceasefire so as to catalyze ground-zero retrieval of historical data. This could be done by broad regions: West, East, Southern, Central, Maghrib and Horn of Africa. Second, language has been a barrier. The charismatic flares in non-Anglophone contexts have received less attention. In each region, a fuller coverage should be encouraged.

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