Global Pentecostal Studies

I just finished attending my first Glopent conference, the 8th international meeting of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism . The conference was held at SOAS, University of London. The conference theme was "Pentecostalism and Development" and featured plenary addresses by Matthew Clark (Deakin University, Australia), Tomas Sundnes Drønen (School of Mission and Theology in Stravanger, Norway), and Dena Freeman (visiting fellow at the London School of Economics). The conference attempted to address a number of questions about the relationship between Pentecostalism in the so-called "developing world" and how scholars understand and interpret what is happening. The various speakers and papers in parallel sessions raised a number of excellent questions. For example, one of the basic issues revolves around the relationship between Pentecostals and development agencies, how they view that relationship, who get's to define the role reli...