This is a study of how self-transformation may occur through the practice of reframing one's personal experience in terms of a canonical language: that is, a system of symbols that purports to explain something about human beings and the universe they live in. The Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example here, but the approach used in this book also illuminates other practices such as psychotherapy in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
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"His [Stromberg's] transcriptions are especially valuable because they provide vivid illustration of the nature of contemporary conversions and, through the salient differences between these and the more ancient paradigms, are provocative for studies of the evolution in doctrines of conversion over the course of two millenia. Stromberg's arguments are pointedly relevant to the contemporary experiences of metanoia and, in their own ways, validate the power of those experiences to transform and to heal." Semiotica
"So painstaking and detailed is this analysis....Stromberg writes as a psychological anthropologist, but his book will be of interest to a much wider audience; any serious student of conversion will find this argument interesting." Choice
"This is an important work for those who are working with or indeed telling EHE narratives." Exceptional Human Experience
"So painstaking and detailed is this analysis....Stromberg writes as a psychological anthropologist, but his book will be of interest to a much wider audience; any serious student of conversion will find this argument interesting." Choice
"This is an important work for those who are working with or indeed telling EHE narratives." Exceptional Human Experience
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This is a study of how self-transformation may occur through the practice of reframing one's personal experience in terms of a canonical language: that is, a system of symbols that purports to explain something about human beings and the universe they live in. The Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example here, but the approach used in this book also illuminates other practices SH such as psychotherapy SH in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
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... and then suddenly as sometimes happens in dreams, out of the corner of my eye again I saw this frieze, a frieze you know that's stone you know with a ... sort of three dimensional ... cut, about twenty to thirty feet high [voice drops to a whisper] and on this frieze there was a picture that was a picture of a combination of Christ on the cross and a Greek athlete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
referential ideology, unacknowledged aim, deniable communications, canonical language, unacknowledged purposes, conversion narrative, dream account, intention system, constitutive behavior, linguistic ideology, canonical image, conversion event, temporary inability, voice change, communicative behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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... and then suddenly as sometimes happens in dreams, out of the corner of my eye again I saw this frieze, a frieze you know that's stone you know with a ... sort of three dimensional ... cut, about twenty to thirty feet high [voice drops to a whisper] and on this frieze there was a picture that was a picture of a combination of Christ on the cross and a Greek athlete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
referential ideology, unacknowledged aim, deniable communications, canonical language, unacknowledged purposes, conversion narrative, dream account, intention system, constitutive behavior, linguistic ideology, canonical image, conversion event, temporary inability, voice change, communicative behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Evangelical Christianity, Jesus Christ, Pastor Davis New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Dorothy Holland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter
- The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin in Back Matter
- On Metaphor (A Critical Inquiry Book) by Sheldon Sacks in Back Matter
- Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (C Pedd T the Philosophical Ess) by Donald Davidson in Back Matter
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- American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by Robert Wuthnow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies Series) by Sharon A. Suh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Outside In: Marginality in the Modern Middle East (Islamic Mediterranean) by Eugene Rogan on page 250, and Back Matter
- Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre by Patrick Riley in Back Matter
- Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture by Eva Illouz in Back Matter
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