323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
The Michael Shermer Show
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What's the Difference?
Pentecostalism was founded in Los Angeles by William J. Seymour, the son of freed slaves from Louisiana. The church for a long time went back down, down south and because of Jim Crow had to split along white and black lines. It's always had that real element of ecstatic Southern Star worship, as you'd call it. Rock and roll is basically secular pentacostalism. Anyone who came out of American music during the 1950s or 1960s were Pentecostals.
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