As a movement firmly planted in the revivalist tradition of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, global Pentecostalism emerged from a number of “revival” centers scattered throughout the world. Historians generally agree that events like the Welsh revival led by the Welshman Evan Roberts (1904–1905), the Mukti Mission revival in India led by Pandita Ramabi (1905–1907), and the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles led by the African American William Seymour (1906–1913) provided the initial impetus for a movement that spread through established global missionary networks within Protestantism. From its inception, Pentecostalism was, and is, a religion made to travel, cosmopolitan both in its scope and outlook.
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