THE FULL GOSPEL IN ZION: A HISTORY OF PENTECOSTALISM IN UTAH. By Alan J.Clark. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023. Pp. vii + 241. Paper, $21.95.

Regional studies of religion in America have moved from New England to the South and on to the West in the past eighty years. In religious history, it is a portent that the Latter-day Saints came from New England and journeyed in successive stages through the Midwest and into the West. Pentecostalism emerged in Kansas and moved west to California before it spread to the “ends of the earth” and every state in the union. With Clark's book, we can see the religious, historical, and social interplay of two “outsider” movements that meet each other in Utah but fail to go beyond the level of “conquest and conversion.” Utah presents a unique context for Pentecostal missions as the only state with a Latter-day Saint majority. It also acts as a geographical setting for the meeting of two religious movements that affirm the continuation of miracles into the modern world, but in The Full Gospel in Zion, Clark views the arrival of Pentecostals in the early twentieth century as a stark contrast to a time of waning miracles among the Latter-day Saints. In seven chapters, Clark presents the history of classical Pentecostalism, both denominations and independents, and with brief introductions, can describe the landscape of the earliest and the latest arrivals to Zion. In an inclusive historiography that neatly aligns the various theological traditions within Pentecostalism, Alan Clark continues toward chapters that view the arrival and settling of Latino and Black Pentecostals. The presence of Pentecostals within a growing diverse religious landscape is matched by the social changes in both ethnic and racial demographics within Utah in the twentieth century. While Pentecostals are noted for phenomenal growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, adjusting to the religious culture in Utah made for only hard-won advances. One of the areas is the noted rise of “international congregations” among the Assemblies of God in Utah, including Chinese, Ethiopian, Navajo, and Brazilian worshippers. The Latter-day Saints' exclusion of African Americans from the full priesthood is placed next to the accomplishment of the Reverend Robert Harris, a political activist and leader in the Church of God in Christ, who became the first African American to be elected to political office in the state of Utah. Toward the end of the book, we read that the author is an insider to the Latter-day Saints and an outsider to Pentecostalism, which clarifies the aim of the final chapter: “Meet the Mormons.” The Full Gospel in Zion is a published form of the author's doctoral dissertation at Claremont Graduate University. It reflects a resonant interaction with the academic authors on Pentecostalism and a careful journey through the religious history of Utah. It is a good addition to the literature that not only finds Pentecostals in a less familiar context but places them next to a majority tradition in Utah. This book is recommended for classes on American religious history at the graduate level and for seminars on Pentecostal history.