>Pastors perform exorcisms in public ecstatic rituals>People "speak in tongues">Pastors magically heal and prophesy How is this different from some African ooga boogas or siberians acting nutty?
From an academic point of view they are shamanistic.But it's kind of like how Catholics claim they aren't polytheistic. Well, yeah they are. From any secular academic understanding. They don't get to make the rules (unless they build their own colleges (which they did!) ), and neither do the Pentacostals.
