The 'great move of God' in an African community: a retrospect of the 1930s indigenous Pentecostal revival in Nigeria and its impact on Nigerian Pentecostalism

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Title:	The 'great move of God' in an African community: a retrospect of the 1930s indigenous Pentecostal revival in Nigeria and its impact on Nigerian Pentecostalism
Author:	Fatokun, Samson Adetunji
Year:	2009
Periodical:	Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
Volume:	38
Issue:	1
Pages:	34-57
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Pentecostalism religious history
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/157254309X381156
Abstract:	This paper examines the 1930s Pentecostal revival in Nigeria that brought Nigerian Pentecostalism onto the global scene. It uses a sociohistorical perspective, drawing data from archival research, oral interviews and bibliographical research. Among other things, the paper brings to the fore the remote and immediate impact of the revival on the Nigerian Church and State. More importantly, it locates the rapid growth of Pentecostalism in Nigeria (particularly the great proliferation of churches in the southwest) in the aftermath effects of the 1930s' indigenous Pentecostal revival. That notwithstanding, the paper denounces the undue emphasis on material prosperity which forms the nucleus of Pentecostal crusades/revival in contemporary time and calls on all stakeholders to go back to the 'rock from which they were hewn' and purify Pentecostalism in Nigeria of all questionable characteristics. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]