Why do Westerners struggle with taking the Christian message to animists? Blaschke answers that Westerners are hindered by their lack of experience with spiritual phenomena and their limited exposure to event-oriented discipling.

In one hundred articles, written by sixty-one gifted contributors (eighteen of whom are from North America) the reader is informed of the staggering breadth, growing profusion and zealous tenacity of religion in modern human culture.

If the Church of Jesus Christ is to penetrate the heavily populated centers of America, ethnically homogeneous congregations of the inner cities may become relics of the past.

This book gives a detailed sociological analysis of worldwide Pentecostalism.