"Transforming the Global Demographic"

Will the charismatic revival now sweeping much of the Third World change the politics of those nations? That's the question at the heart of a new Pew Research project. Mark Tooley of the Weekly Standard online has an excellent article. Here's the opening graph:

"NOW NUMBERING OVER 500 million, and probably the fastest growing religious movement in the world, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians are transforming the global religious demographic, especially in Latin America and Africa. They comprise nearly half of Brazil's population, and 25 percent of the United States is Pentecostal or Charismatic."