Though conversion is a common theme, there is not one unifying understanding of what signifies Pentecostal conversion. Recent scholarship has addressed Pentecostal conversion from a variety of theological, anthropological, and sociological perspectives, trying to define the phenomenon within a larger context of spirituality and religious conversion. Historically and theologically, Pentecostal conversion is linked to initiation-theologies of various waves of Pentecostalism with a key distinction between non-sacramental classical and neo-Pent…