[A] vibrant study certainly gives scholars a new field for investigation and this book will blaze a trail for years to come.

AFRICA

[A] captivating read to anybody from theologians (whether Penetcostal, Nigerian, both, or neither) to anthropologists and political scientists engaged in research about Nigerian Pentecostalism.

PENTECOSTUDIES

This excellent and theoretically innovative volume extends and critically complicates the fast expanding literature on the Pentecostal revival in Africa. . . . Wariboko has written an absorbing and philosophically rigorous book, one that is destined to become a major point of reference in Pentecostal studies for years to come.

JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES