Untitled - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Untitled - Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Protestantism. As a needed balance, however, Grant Wacker<br />
points out that working-class Pentecostalism stil l flourishes<br />
in inner-city missions and in small-town revival ceneres . 11<br />
Although it is be yo nd the scope <strong>of</strong> this s tudy, the pcncecost.aI<br />
move me nt in <strong>Newfoundland</strong> and Labrador did no t immediately s he d<br />
i t s secta rian character , but it persisted beyond the period o f<br />
world War II and in spite <strong>of</strong> its denominationalism. It has<br />
been shown convincingly t hat even as late as the 1960s<br />
Pen tecostalism in rural <strong>Newfoundland</strong> was associated with t he<br />
lower end <strong>of</strong> the socioeconomic scale , and that it did no t<br />
d i f f e r significantly from t he l owe r class app eal s ince t he<br />
movement's debut in Newfound land . 12 Hence, to cuntinue this<br />
s tudy beyond t he cut-<strong>of</strong>f date- -l939- - is mere ly to repea t<br />
l arg e l y t h e the me s found in t his thesis.
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