ABSTRACT
Writing on Pentecostalism is a performance of pure madness. Pure madness that sinks us into an altered language and metaphorical speech that characterizes divergent and unruly spiritual realities that have emerged in Zambia. It enters the terrains of ambiguities and paradoxes, interruptions, disruptions, distractions, and with humility acknowledges the possibility of deception. Oralitology is a theory of inherited models of communicative practices, the transmission of knowledge and oral-shaped forms of writing that exhibit offbeat and polyphonic practices. It is the capacity to overcome the separation between primordial extraordinary intuitions, supersensitive and scientific imaginations. The messiness and fluidities lead to open and new dimensions of Pentecostal becoming in a world that embraces all unimaginable mysteries and strangeness of life. Approaching Zambian Pentecostalism from the unruly seeks to reveal not the contemporary, nor homogeneity, but rather, the radical disruptiveness of apparently disparate expressions of varieties of pneumacentric trends within Christianity.
