| Allan Anderson (Birmingham, England) |
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 Since 1995 Allan has been working in the Centre for Missiology and World Christianity at what was Selly Oak Colleges, since 1999 part of the Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion, Department of Theology, School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham. The Selly Oak campus with the mission colleges at Selly Oak has become of of the most international places in the world to study and work at. It is not unusual for there to be students from seventy different nations staying here at one time. Allan finds the interaction with students from Africa, Asia, Europe and elsewhere very stimulating. His work includes teaching postgraduate modules for the postgraduate diploma, MA and MPhil in Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies and in Mission Studies, and the ThD in Missiology.
The modules he teaches are Origins and Development of Global Pentecostalism (October-December), Pentecostal / Charismatic Theology in Context (October-December), and Independency in Africa and Asia (January-March). His major responsibility is in research supervision. He supervises (mentors) up to about 20 postgraduate research students at one time in these and related studies for MPhil, ThD and PhD degrees. Many of these students have interests in Pentecostalism in the Third World, especially Africa and Asia, but also with studies in Europe and the Americas. Allan has also been responsible for a second and third year BA module in Pentecostal Studies, taught every alternative year. A major part of Allan's work is ongoing research, currently on the mission history of Pentecostalism and Pentecostals in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The results of this research is reflected in the Publications pages. Apart from five books written on African Pentecostalism and independent churches, he has also edited a book with Walter J. Hollenweger, Pentecostals After a Century, and edited a book with Edmond Tang on Pentecostalism in Asia, Asian and Pentecostal (Oxford: Regnum), to be published in June 2004. He has most recently written a new book on global Pentecostalism entitled An Introduction to Pentecostalism for Cambridge University Press, published in May 2004. Allan serves on the editorial boards of Missionalia and the Journal of Pentecostal Theology, is a member of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, the Southern African Missiological Society, and is Treasurer- Designate for the International Association for Mission Studies, and the Pentecostal Peace Fellowship. He has been external examiner for postgraduate programmes in two British theological colleges and is adjunct professor of missiology at Global University, Springfield, Missouri (formerly ICI). Allan travels internationally and has visited eighteen countries in five continents for conferences and consultations.
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