When we first met at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Church History in Vancouver in 2008, we never would have predicted the rich and ongoing collaborations that we have enjoyed ever since. Over the past sixteen years, scholarship on Canadian Pentecostalism has mushroomed and we have shared the work of authoring, editing, and coordinating various panels, public talks, and symposia. Those collaborations have been fostered and framed by a series of conference gatherings and scholarly associations, and we want to acknowledge how important those groups and gatherings are to us and to the field of Canadian Pentecostal Studies.
Friends and colleagues at the annual meetings of the Canadian Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, including the Canadian Society of Church History, the Canadian Society for Studies in Religion, and the Canadian Historical Association have been welcoming audiences and conversation partners, encouraging us as we developed and shared ideas. The academic conversations we enjoyed in those meetings have been rich and generative.
We wish to thank our contributors for their scholarship and for agreeing to have it appear as this collection. Most of the chapters in this volume (except Althouse and G. Butler) were previously published online in the Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity during its ten-year run from 2010–2019. We wish to acknowledge the colleagues who shared the editorial work of the journal (Peter Althouse, Pamela Holmes, and Marty Mittelstadt), the book review editors (Adam Stewart and Tom Robinson), and the anonymous peer reviewers. Trinity Western University hosted the journal and we are grateful for that support in kind.
We also want to acknowledge our scholar friends and collaborators who hail from outside of Canada. Attending international conferences, including the Society for Pentecostal Studies and GloPent—the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism, and working on various projects with those collaborators, we have joined rich scholarly conversations, offering Canadian perspectives on larger questions of Pentecostal origins, global networks, and theoretical analysis. Here, we especially would like to give our warm thanks to Allan Anderson, our friend and mentor, for agreeing to read the collection and offer the afterword. We want to thank Brill for their support of this project, including the editors of the series, William Kay and Mark Cartledge.
Research is central to the work of the academy and the work we do is always more than what appears in print. We can never acknowledge all people, organizations, or friends that are close to us. But we must make explicit what most