International audienceBrazilian Pentecostalism in Africa: The Kingdom of God's Abstract Universality. — The expansion of the Pentecostal movement in the world, especially in Africa, is linked to its American origins and resources, even though African peoples have appropriated it in many forms over a long period of time. A network of religious exchanges exists among developing countries, for instance: the implantation of Korean or Brazilian denominations in African capitals. The (mainly urban) missio- nary strategies of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (a major neo- Pentecostal church in Brazil) are described. Rife with paradoxes, this church combines the inspiration of the Power of the Spirit with a Catholic model of church organi...