Charisma and Community: Study of Religious Commitment Within the Charismatic Renewal

by Mary Jo Neitz

Since Comte, social scientists have tended to assume that mod­ernization, along with a tri­umphant scientific rationality, has destroyed the legitimacy of religion as a social reality. However, this crisis of legit­imacy has never been examined in a setting where religious real­ity is affirmed. This book fills that gap, exploring the meaning of religious reality in the lives of a group of Catholic Charismatics to discover how belief...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887381308
• ISBN13: 9780887381300
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.