Language, Charisma, and Creativity: Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal

by Thomas J. Csordas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230341101
• ISBN13: 9780230341104
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"