Abstract
M eredith McGuire's treatment of Testimony as a Commitment Mechanism in Catholic Pentecostal Prayer Groups, which recently appeared in this journal (1977), is a potentially important contribution to our understanding of commitment processes in social movements and to the ever-growing literature on the neoPentecostal movement. Nonetheless, as one of the authors whose work is cited and criticized by McGuire, I must raise several reservations about her findings. She asserts that in the prayer groups she observed,
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