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For a time, he came under the care of his paternal grandmother, a strict Pentecostalist.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022

Style and substanceHats offDeadly silence In word and deed, that was a rebuke to the church for its retreat from the poor urban peripheries, where Pentecostalist competitors have flourished.

From Economist • Aug. 1, 2013

The hero is Jeanette, a working-class Northerner whose adoptive mother is an evangelical Pentecostalist with peculiar, and extremely quotable, opinions.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2012

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.

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2011

He had been visited in prison, at the behest of one court-appointed psychiatrist, by a Pentecostalist known as "Sister Smith"�Ollie Smith, 58, a beautician who serves part time as a volunteer prison worker.

From Time Magazine Archive