Pentecostalism continues to make headlines as leading publications turn their attention to this fast-growing segment of Christianity. The New York Times published a three-part series this week on New York City pentecostals. The Economist observed in a December article that while the great secular ideologies of the 19th and early 20th centuries — from Marxism to Freudianism — have faded, this spirit-filled version of Christianity has flourished, with political implications.

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