ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Pentecostalism refers to a wider range of events and movements in which experiences of the Spirit occur and are a tangible practice of spiritual gifts. It includes the immediacy of the Spirit in missionary adventures, a particular reading of the Bible as God speaking directly to followers, and providential accounts of the Spirit working through migration and revival. After the French Revolution, Catholicism experienced a spiritual and political renewal. Bible distribution is another way in which the paths for the Latin American Pentecostal revival were already in place. Baptists came to the Baltics as part of the nineteenth-century European Continental revival. The pattern of migrant revival and the transnational circulation of Evangelical literature of the Latvian Awakened had other consequences. The success of Pentecostalism as a global religious phenomenon owes much to the preceding local factors and movements in Latin America, as well as earlier transnational links.
