Thomas Csordas's 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. Csordas describes the movement's internal diversity and traces its development and expansion across 30 years. He offers insights into the contemporary nature of rationality, the transformation of space and time in Charismatic daily life, gender discipline, the blurring of boundaries between ritual and everyday life, the sense of community forged through shared ritual participation, and the creativity of language and metaphor in prophetic utterance. Charisma, Csordas proposes, is a collective self-process, located not in the personality of a leader, but in the rhetorical resources mobilized by participants in ritual performance. His examination of ritual language and ritual performance illuminates this theory in relation to the postmodern condition of culture.
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“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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Thomas J. Csordas is Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing.
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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal has never had a single identifiable charismatic leader in the Weberian sense, although among the movement elite there exists an informal hierarchy of charismatic renown based on reputation for evangelism, healing, or local community leadership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bulwark prophecies, word gifts group, pastoral slang, psychocultural themes, rhetorical involution, sacred swoon, national service committee, tautological cycle, intentionless meaning, public healing services, embodied otherness, gender discipline, demonic harassment, head coordinators, charismatic action, charismatic renewal, ritual language, rhetorical conditions, rhetorical apparatus, imaginative terrain, ritual genres, rhetorical dynamic, male headship, sacred self, charismatic healing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Holy Spirit, Catholic Charismatics, Training Course, North American, Ann Arbor, Steven Clark, Catholic Pentecostalism, Community of God's Delight, Servants of the Word, South Bend, Spirit Seminar, Cardinal Suenens, Latin America, University of Michigan, Archbishop Milingo, Charismatic Christianity, New Age, New England, San Francisco, Bentley Historical Library, Bruce Yocum, Demographic Change, Johannes Fabian, John Wimber New!
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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal has never had a single identifiable charismatic leader in the Weberian sense, although among the movement elite there exists an informal hierarchy of charismatic renown based on reputation for evangelism, healing, or local community leadership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bulwark prophecies, word gifts group, pastoral slang, psychocultural themes, rhetorical involution, sacred swoon, national service committee, tautological cycle, intentionless meaning, public healing services, embodied otherness, gender discipline, demonic harassment, head coordinators, charismatic action, charismatic renewal, ritual language, rhetorical conditions, rhetorical apparatus, imaginative terrain, ritual genres, rhetorical dynamic, male headship, sacred self, charismatic healing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Holy Spirit, Catholic Charismatics, Training Course, North American, Ann Arbor, Steven Clark, Catholic Pentecostalism, Community of God's Delight, Servants of the Word, South Bend, Spirit Seminar, Cardinal Suenens, Latin America, University of Michigan, Archbishop Milingo, Charismatic Christianity, New Age, New England, San Francisco, Bentley Historical Library, Bruce Yocum, Demographic Change, Johannes Fabian, John Wimber New!
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- The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber in Back Matter
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