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Pentecostalism: United States
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Pentecostalism entered a new phase in 1960 with the appearance of "neo - Pentecostalism" in the traditional churches in the United States. The first well - known person to openly experience glossolalia and remain within his church was Dennis Bennett, an Episcopal priest in Van Nuys, California. Although forced to leave his parish in Van Nuys because of controversy over his experience, Bennett was invited to pastor an innercity Episcopal parish in Seattle, Wash. The church in Seattle experienced rapid growth after the introduction of Pentecostal worship, becoming a center of neo - Pentecostalism in the northwestern United States.
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Like most other Protestant denominations and other religions, Pentecostalism is divided into many sects, reported to be from 177 up to over 11,000. The vast majority of these sects are composed of only one physical church. Some of the main Pentecostal sects include the Assemblies of God, Church of God (Cleveland, TN), Church of God in Christ and United Pentecostal Church.
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The Welsh revival of 1904-5 set the stage for the emergence of Pentecostalism. Many of the Keswick and Holiness leaders stated in print that this was the latter rain that they had been expecting and confidently predicted that it would sweep the earth. When the revival spread to Los Angeles and was accompanied by the gift of tongues, the claim was made that this was the eschatological sign; the new era had truly dawned.
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Anderson concludes that Pentecostalism represented a dysfunctional and maladjusted reaction to social pressures. Because of the Pentecostals’ negative appraisal of society and their pessimistic outlook for the future, they were an apolitical, "conservative bulwark of the status quo." They channeled their social protest "into the harmless backwaters of religious ideology."14 For Anderson, the radical social impulse inherent in the vision of the disinherited was squandered away in escapism and conservative conformity.
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