Pentecostalists

Since 1960, the number of Pentecostalists has increased fourfold, while the number of Episcopalians has dropped almost in half.

Born-again Christians and Pentecostalists tell her that even though her life is a total failure they accept her as she is.

Invisibility of Disabled Two pentecostalists discussed emigration with Viktor Fulmakht, a Soviet Jew recently given permission to leave.

Pentecostalists, who make up one of the fastest-growing sects, preach faith healing and raising from the dead, but they also give a substantial voice in church to ordinary village women.

Yet both Pentecostalists and fundamentalists were reacting, in their different ways, to the fact that by the early decades of the twentieth century, Western discourse had reached an unprecedented complexity.

The number of African Christians has soared over the last century, to 360 million from 10 million, and the boom is not among tweedy Presbyterians but among charismatic Pentecostalists.

Today, many other religious, mostly Christian, denominations are present in small numbers, including Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostalists whose movement within Poland originated in Cieszyn Silesia.

Pentecostalists have been recorded as preaching connections between illness and the devil, which has combined potently with existing indigenous beliefs, most notably in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

While the traditional Batak church grew through rejecting only 'negative' adat, there is a more-recent anti-adat movement among Pentecostalists that perceives non-Christian elements of Batak culture, such as ulos as satanic.

Yet apart from "Handler," a drama about snake-handling Pentecostalists that had its premiere in Atlanta in 2000, this crop of plays represents Mr. Schenkkan's first work for the stage since "The Kentucky Cycle" opened on Broadway in November 1993.

There are also much smaller numbers of followers of various other religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews, and numerous non-traditional recent arrivals to Georgia (such as Baptists, Pentecostalists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and Latter-day Saints).

In Latin and Central America, Pentecostalists are winning millions of converts from Roman Catholicism, and in Russia and other former communist countries, Pentecostalists are challenging the monopoly of Orthodox Christianity.