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Thanks.

Used to be an assumption that Pentecostalism was only a religion of the poor, low IQ, and uneducated etc.

My dissertation research literature review documented research which proved that was quite untrue on all counts.

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Interesting...I didn't know how much Pentecostalism reached into the affluent communities; my assumption was it didn't happen prior to the charismatic movement of the 60s.

My parents' families came from the rural southeast...They ranged from dirt poor (preachers) to middle-class (farmers, small business owners), and that was the background of most of their church membership. While I wouldn't say any of them were necessarily uneducated or of a low IQ, they were simple, God-fearing believers. They relied on the spiritual gifts to evangelize and basically help them survive (I could tell you some stories).