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This chapter describes the miraculous power of the Holy Ghost and its particular mediations through the radio loudspeaker. Through this exploration of prayer translated through the radio apparatus, this chapter also introduces key performances of charismatic worship and techniques of prayer that recur throughout the book. Articulating the phenomenon of “radio tactility” as an efficacious point of contact for the communication of healing virtue, this section moves comparatively between performances of divine communication in southern Appalachia and broader Pentecostal practices of the twentieth century. While grounded in the contemporary practice of curative radio prayer among charismatic communities in southern Appalachia, this chapter also recalls formative practices of faith during the Charismatic Revival of the early 1950s, when millions of listeners tuned in to Oral Roberts’s Healing Waters radio broadcast and were instructed to put their hands on the radio during the healing prayer.

The author discusses the attitudes of Kragur people toward religion. He talks about the role of religion in Kragur villagers' experience of the modern world and how they have used religion to try to control money. Papua New Guinea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but its preamble also acknowledges the widespread influence of Christianity when it speaks of “our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours.” About 96 percent of PNG's people are affiliated with a Christian denomination, with Catholicism having the largest number of adherents. Most of PNG's people were Christians, but a lot of Kragur people don't really care what others think of their religious identity. The author describes Kragur people's religious life, including their belief in God and the Virgin Mary as well as their charismatic worship practices.

The twentieth-century Pentecost, the Welsh Revival of 1904–5, was the last flourish of mass resistance to the triumph of the historicist perspective. For a brief moment, the new rules of historical and psychological discourse were rent asunder. Their core assumptions, the narrative exclusion of the supernatural and the containment of the sacred within the field of memory, were challenged as miraculous events tore apart the fabric of everyday life. The movement began on the edge of industrial Wales, in 1904. It was characterised by charismatic worship and its converts were credited with the establishment of the Pentecostal Churches. The movement's emergence is attributed variously to the power of secret prayers, a conservative reaction to the decline of Welsh culture, and the psychological frustration of the disenfranchised.