Inventing Pentecostalism: Pandita Ramabai and the Mukti Revival from a Postcolonial Perspective

Author(s): Yan Suarsana (University of Heidelberg)
Published in: PentecoStudies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2014), pp. 173–196

Abstract

The revival at Pandita Ramabai’s Mukti Mission in Kedgaon, India, has gained wide currency as one of the birthplaces of global Pentecostalism — and it preceded Azusa Street by a year. Suarsana reads the episode from a postcolonial perspective and problematises the very category: he asks how far “Pentecostal” is a description of what happened at Mukti in 1905 and how far it is a label applied retrospectively by a movement in search of its own origins. A necessary counterweight to any monogenetic account of Pentecostal beginnings.

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