Daily: The fastest growing religion you’ve never heard of

The Bunker

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How did a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the century, become the fastest growing religion today? Pentecostal Christianity has 600 million followers, with 35,000 new adherents a day. So what’s behind the remarkable rise of this religious movement? Elle Hardy, author of Beyond Belief, tells Arthur Snell about her mission to report its rise across twelve different countries, from South America to Africa and Australia, how Pentecostalism provides community to the rootless and marginalised in a fragmenting world…and its toxic connection to populist authoritarianism. “There will be more Pentecostals than Catholics in Brazil in the next ten years.” “Anyone can become a prophet in Pentecostalism.” “You can fit six Vaticans in the biggest Pentecostal church in Nigeria.” “Pentecostalism is the ideology of the new right in America.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/beyond-belief/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Arthur Snell. How has a Christian movement
1:09.6	founded at the turn of the 20th century become the fastest growing religion on earth.
1:15.0	I'm talking about Pentecostalism which has 600 million followers and gains 35,000 new followers every single day.
1:24.8	El Hardy has just written a book called Beyond Belief
1:28.5	How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World.
1:32.0	And she joins me today from Australia to talk about her book
1:35.0	Elle welcome to the bunker. Thanks for having me. So Elle I gave the sort of the most striking
1:42.2	statistic or certainly the one that really hit me just when I was reading your book about
1:46.3	the extraordinary growth of Pentecostalism 35,000 new followers every day.
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