Sentence examples for Pentecostalist from inspiring English sources
noun
A member of the Pentecostalism movement.
Having played Odessa, a Harlem pentecostalist, in The Amen Corner three years ago, winning an Olivier award for best supporting actress, Clarke is now taking the title role of Ma Rainey, a queenly blues superstar of the 1920s, who comes under pressure literally to "jazz it up" to make her music more appealing to broader audiences.
Pat Robertson is a pentecostalist.
Her Pentecostalist faith makes her illiberal in some areas: she has retracted Mr Campos's support for gay marriage.
Besides, the Catholic bits of Germany such as Bavaria are the richest.Peter Berger, an American sociologist, has found that Weber's theories have a certain plausibility in Latin America, where a Protestant, and especially a Pentecostalist minority, outperforms the Catholic majority.
As one leading black Pentecostalist puts it, "we believe that God brought us here from the Caribbean for a reason to preach the Gospel not only among people of British origin but among fellow-newcomers to this country".But black immigrants are doing more to keep Christianity alive than starting new churches: they are also helping fill Anglican and Catholic pews which might otherwise be vacant.
A Pentecostalist radio station was torched in May and several people shot after a broadcaster compared passages of the Bible and the Koran on air.
The one thing marking her out is a deeply felt religious conviction during her teenage years; she no longer attends church devotedly, but in 2012 ended up married to the musician Marcus Mumford, whom she met at a Christian youth camp as a child, and whose parents run the UK branch of the Association of Vineyard Churches, an evangelical-Pentecostalist movement.
It is in this shadowy area that some abuses have occurred that deeply embarrass more respectable black Christians: cases of children being maltreated on grounds that they are witches, for instance.Despite their differences, the black evangelicals and Pentecostalists have certain things in common with more informal movements like the Aladura.
On the other hand, many African Anglicans love the idea of an episcopate that goes back to the dawn of the Christian era, something the Pentecostalists can't provide.
But the Anglicans and other old Protestant churches are losing ground to the Pentecostalists.
But critics said the legislation amounted to killing a fly with a sledge-hammer.As a result of the law, at least 200 religious communities, including Methodists, Pentecostalists, Seventh Day Adventists, Reform Jews, Buddhists and Hindus faced a downgrading of their status.
