This article discusses the national framing of Angolan Pentecostalism from the perspective of connections. It analyses how Angola matters as
a centre of inspiration for different Pentecostal churches and networks
precisely by engaging different religious imaginaries, social memories
and anticipations of the future that operate in a variety of ethnic, African
and Lusophone spaces. In doing so, this contribution aims at overcoming
both the understanding of global Pentecostalism through a national and
diasporic lens as well as a universal lens, underscoring the multi-polarity of Angolan Pentecostalism. The connections that Angolan Pentecostalisms
create between places and cultures involve different transnational circuits
that cultivate diverse cultural, economic and political imaginations and
belongings. The possibilities for bridging and bonding that different Pentecostal connections offer generate new relationships, imaginations,
rituals and the circulation of ideas. We suggest that Angolan Pentecostalism might be seen as a multi-polar force of multi-directional
connections, which dynamics and intensity oscillates, depending on the location and movement of a Pentecostal group in the global geography
of power, in postcolonial territorial and social settings, and on modes of appropriating and making Lusophone heritages