This book is an important contribution to the discipline of African Pentecostal studies by spelling out the uniqueness of the discipline and providing academic frameworks and methods of gaining a better understanding to African Pentecostalism. The book should be read by all students and academics who are seeking for advanced intellectual methods of studying African Pentecostalism.

Collium Banda, North-West University

This is essential reading for southern African Pentecostal theologians, for whom this book is a treasure trove of useful information and a timely reminder that scholarship is not undertaken in a vacuum.

Allan Anderson, University of Birmingham

Kgatle is doing African Pentecostal theologians and would-be scholars the favor of discussing the essentials of the unique Pentecostal paradigm, applicable to nearly all the streams of African Pentecostalism that he distinguished, found for instance in its pervasive pneumatology, determining its hermeneutics as well; holistic salvation including an emphasis on healing and prosperity; its participatory and lively liturgy; a hermeneutics built on subjective experiences; realized eschatology, etc., but within African contexts that function with implicit African world views and values. Kgatle empowers readers to apply African indigenous knowledge systems in their endeavors to explain African Pentecostal theology and praxis.

Journal Pneuma