Language, Charisma, and Creativity The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement

Name: Language, Charisma, and Creativity The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement
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ISBN: 9780520204690

ISBN-10: 0520204697

ISBN-13: 9780520204690

Edition: 1997

Authors: Thomas J. Csordas

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Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. This story, unlike an ethnography of a little-known tribal society, is about people who are quite like everybody else but at the same time inhabit a substantially different phenomenological world. Csordas has observed and studied Charismatic groups throughout the United States. He begins with an introduction to the Charismatic Renewal and a history of its development during the…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/25/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Illustrations


Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Building the Kingdom



Religion in the Postmodern Condition



A Communitarian Ideal



Ritualization and Radicalization



Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Charisma



Ritual Language: Speaking the Kingdom



Prophetic Utterance and Sacred Reality



Creativity, Constraint, and the Sacred



Performance, and Practice as Domains of Social Action


Notes


References


Index