Del i serien Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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 charges of anthropology as a discipline: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. In contrast to the portrayal of the distant cultural 'other' in ethnographic studies of tribal societies, this book shows that people who might be regarded by some as 'religious eccentrics' are quite comprehensible in terms of contemporary culture, while at the same time people who might be anyone's neighbors in fact inhabit a profoundly distinct world of experience. This new work makes an original, important contribution to anthropology, sociology, studies of religion and ritual, cultural phenomenology, linguistic-semiotic and rhetorical studies, the multidisciplinary study of social movements, and American Studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-06-14
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt484 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Anthropology of Religion
Antal sidor320
Upplaga2002
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230341104

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

'A timely, well-written contribution to our understanding of a number of important phenomena in the contemporary world, this is also a contribution to debates over concepts and methods in anthropological and related scholarship.' - Erika Bourguignon, Ohio State University, USA 'Csordas is so familiar with the [Roman Catholic Charismatic] movement that he is to a large extent able to overcome the typical problem of the ethnographer - the assertion that his or her research may not be generalizable beyond the local situation.' - Peter Stromberg, University of Tulsa, USA 'This study of the Catholic charismatic renewal succeeds in the difficult feat of speaking both to specialists in a cluster of scholarly disciplines and to the general reader.' - R. W. Rousseau, University of Scranton, USA