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glossolalia

The gift of speaking in tongues, usually claimed to be unknown by the speaker and interpreted by someone else. It is referred to in the New Testament, Acts 2:4, and is believed to be a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is a distinct feature of many revivals, especially the Pentecostal movement and the charismatic movement in this century.
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The variety of institutions that offer "higher education" is astonishing: at one end, tiny missionary colleges offer, inter alia, to teach their students the knack of speaking in tongues or glossalalia, and at the other, vast corporations like Harvard and Miami-Dade Community College sustain expensive scientific research on the one hand and inexpensive vocational education on the other.
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