Kliewer

refers to research showing that:

"The research shows that the sector that belongs to the Pentecostal churches has the following characteristics:

- a 15 percent higher proportion of coloured members;

- a similar increase in the proportion of people who gained literacy as adults and of persons

who have attended only elementary schools;

- a small number of people who attended middle schools;

- the proportion of people with university degrees is a third of that in the population as a

whole;

- the proportion of domestic servants is about a percent higher;

- there are few employers or business people;

- their average income is significantly less than that of the population as a whole."¹ (318)

"The social characteristics show that the majority of Pentecostals belong to the poorer sectors of the Brazilian people, living at the outskirts of the cities." ²(

1GU Kliewer 'Effervescent Diversity', The Ecumenical Review 57:3 (2005), 314–321, 318.

2GU Kliewer 'Effervescent Diversity', The Ecumenical Review 57:3 (2005), 314–321, 319.