| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders. Ed. by James R. Goff Jr. and Grant Wacker. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. xviii, 430 pp. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 1-55728-731-7.)
As the subtitle indicates, Portraits of a Generation tells the story of many previously unstudied early Pentecostal leaders. By design it omits the better-known early Pentecostal leaders—Charles Fox Parham, William J. Seymour, Aimee Semple McPherson, and others. This volume by no means exhausts the list of early Pentecostal leaders but represents the research interests of the various authors. Whether by accident or choice, the early Pentecostal leaders noted in this study represent both genders and different theological opinions, social backgrounds, geographical locations, races, and ethnic backgrounds. In noting such leaders, Portraits of a Generation challenges the commonly held view that early Pentecostalism was largely leaderless. Rather, it paints a picture of a movement with strong and determined leaders with a clear vision.	1
Portraits of a Generation contains twenty-two chapters divided into three sections: "Forerunners," "Visionaries," and "Builders." Except for the introduction and afterword, all of the chapters deal with specific early Pentecostal leaders. The editors and several of the authors (for example, Edith L. Blumhofer and Vinson Synan) are well known as scholars of Pentecostal studies. Conversely, a number of the authors were graduate students or have no academic appointments.	. . .

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