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Author Csordas, Thomas J.

Title Language, charisma, and creativity : the ritual life of a religious movement / Thomas J. Csordas
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description xxii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Building the Kingdom -- 2. Religion in the Postmodern Condition -- 3. A Communitarian Ideal -- 4. Ritualization and Radicalization -- 5. Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Charisma -- 6. Ritual Language: Speaking the Kingdom -- 7. Prophetic Utterance and Sacred Reality -- 8. Creativity, Constraint, and the Sacred -- App. Performance, and Practice as Domains of Social Action
Summary In treating the Charismatic movement as "an episode in the social history of the imagination," Csordas describes the movement's internal diversity and traces its development and international expansion across the thirty years of its existence. He offers insights regarding the contemporary nature of rationality, the transformation of space and time in Charismatic daily life, gender discipline, the conditions for the blurring of boundaries between ritual and everyday events the sense of community forged through shared ritual participation, and the creativity of language and metaphor in prophetic utterance. This new work makes an original, important contribution to anthropology, linguistic-semiotic and rhetorical studies, the multidisciplinary study of social movements, and American studies
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index
Notes English
Subject Pentecostalism -- Catholic Church -- History.
Pentecostalism -- Catholic Church -- United States.
Pentecostalism -- United States -- History.
Pentecostalism.
SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139929
Author Csordas, Thomas J.
LC no. 95050992
ISBN 0520204697 (cloth : alk. paper)
ABBREV TI LANGUAGE, CHARISMA, & CREATIVITY: THE RITUAL LIFE OF A RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT
Other Titles Language, charisma, and creativity