Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the

The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators--the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga--in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.