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Book Review: Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History

national Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America Edited by Andre Corten and Ruth Marshall-Fratani Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 2001, xi, 311 pp., paper, $22.95 Reviewed by Samuel Escobar The special value of this excellent volume is the comparative approach to Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. The chapters on Africa have been especially informative for this reviewer, and no doubt African readers will appreciate the chapters on Latin America. Section I of the book offers an introduction in which several authors outline a conceptual frame linking the sociopolitical phenomenon of globalization with the growth of Pentecostalism. This general section includes two chapters related to Africa and one to Latin America. Section 2 is dedicated to the Caribbean and Latin America, with case studies from Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Section 3 offers case studies from Ghana, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Congo. The book offers chapters by well-known specialists, such as Paul Gifford, who examines the sources of faith, gospel, deliverance, and Zionism as common theological motifs ofAfrican Pentecostalism. Paul Freston studies the "transformation of Pentecostalism into a global religion and the shift in its centre to the Third World" (196), taking the Brazilianborn Universal Church of the Kingdom of God as a case study. Gifford and Freston offer the kind of comprehensive approach in which the sociological analysis is complemented by the pastoral and theological awareness that this missiologist reviewer appreciates. The book takes its title from the second essay of section I, by Waldo Cesar from Brazil. He reminds us that the phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism in the world "is best understood in its entirety if the transcendental dimension expressed through doctrine and the religious experience it produces, is taken into account in historical and sociological research" (22). Some of the chapters, such as Jean Pierre Bastian's essay on Costa Rica, reflect a lack of information and sensitivity of ecclesial and theological issues and jump into Book Reviews 391