Spirit-Empowerment Journals

Below are listed a number of journals and other periodicals related to the Pentecostal/charismatic movement. For more Spirit-empowered periodical titles available in the ORU Library, see opens new windowhere. (Use of some of these requires ORU login credentials)

Thesis & Dissertations

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Links to Other Pentecostal Archives

Pentecostal-Charismatic Reference Works

For finding background information on various people, movements and topics related to Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, these reference works are a great place to start.

Database Searches

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World Christian Encyclopedia

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opens new windowWorld Christian Encyclopedia provides comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. Extensive data are available on over 9,000 Christian denominations, 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 5,000 cities, 3,000 provinces and 234 countries. Statistics data in this database includes

  • Global Christian statistics
  • Christianity by country statistics
  • Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant statistics
  • Global Pentecostal and Charismatic statistics
  • denominations statistics

According to the opens new windowWorld Christian Encyclopedia statistics concerning the global Spirit-empowered movement(Accessed April 2019):

  • Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians total 579,145,627.
  • Pentecostals total 104,118,878.
  • Charismatics total 249,000,966.
  • Independent Charismatics total 226,025,783.

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