Flowing and framing Language ideology, circulation, and authority in a Pentecostal Bible school Bruno Reinhardt 1 Utrecht University Experiential and mediatized, Pentecostal Christianity is one of the most suc- cessful cases of contemporary religious globalization. However, it has oten grown and expanded transnationally without clear authoritative contours. hat is the case in contemporary Ghana, where Pentecostal claims about char- ismatic empowerment have fed public anxieties concerning the fake and the occult. his article examines how Pentecostalism’s dysfunctional circulation is countered within seminaries, or Bible schools, by speciic strategies of pastoral training. First, I revisit recent debates on Protestant language ideology in the anthropology of Christianity, and stress Pentecostalism’s ainity with notions of low and saturation of speech by divine presence. Second, I move to data collected in the Anagkazo Bible and Ministry Training Center, and investigate this institution’s pedagogical framing of Pentecostalism’s otherwise erratic low of speech and power according to two normative operations: Biblical iguration and the emic notion of transmission as ‘impartation’. I conclude by stressing how the metapragmatics of iguration and impartation in Anagkazo requires an understanding of religious circulation that exceeds the dominant scholarly focus on religion-as-mediation. Keywords: Pentecostalism, Ghana, circulation, language ideology, meta-pragmatics, authority, pedagogy 1. I would like to thank Charles Hirschkind and the anonymous reviewers of Pragmatics and Society for their critical input. Funding for this research was provided by a CAPES-Fulbright multi-year fellowship, an A. Richard Diebold Jr. Fellowship Endowment in Anthropology, and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015), 261–287. doi 10.1075/ps.6.2.06rei issn 1878-9714 / e-issn 1878-9722 © John Benjamins Publishing Company