Language, charisma, and creativity: ritual life in the Catholic charismatic renewal

An eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. THOMAS J. CSORDAS Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is the author of' The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing' (1994) and 'Body/Meaning/Healing' (2002), and editor of 'Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self' (2004) and 'Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization'(2009). INDICE: PART I: MEANING AND MOVEMENT - Building the Kingdom - Religion in the Postmodern Condition - PART II: HABITUS AND PRACTIVE - A Communitarian Ideal - Ritualization and Radicalization - Interlude - Toward a Rhetorical Theoryof Charisma - PART III: METAPHOR AND PERFORMANCE - Ritual Language: Speaking the Kingdom - Prophetic Utterance and Sacred Reality - Epilogue - Creativity, Constraint, and the Sacred

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34110-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 342
• Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés