"The Pentecostal Presence in Media: Written Testimony , as Meta-Textual Literature"

This treatment will focus on three facets of the phenomenon of testimony and its variegated purpose within Pentecostalism. (I) The importance of testimony within the Pentecostal tradition. (2) the meta-textual nature of written testimony, and (3) a comparative analysis of a 1906 Los Angeles Times article and the historic Azusa Street Papers. I will argue that these papers are representative of a Pentecostal presence in media and as "written" testimony perform a function to a marginalized religious community beyond their secular counterparts