The Anthropology of Religious Charisma [electronic resource] : Ecstasies and Institutions /
Lindholm, C.editor.
According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, and Amazonian shamans, among others.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Charisma in Theory and Practice; Part I Performing Charisma; Chapter 1 Performing the Charismatic Ritual; Chapter 2 Knowledge and Miracles: Modes of Charisma in Syrian Sufism; Part II Gendering Charisma; Chapter 3 Female Sufis in Syria: Charismatic Authority and Bureaucratic Structure; Chapter 4 The Gender of Charisma: Notes from a Taiwanese Buddhist Transnational NGO; Chapter 5 Residual Masculinity and the Cultivation of Negative-Charisma in a Caribbean Pentecostal Community
Part III Religious Charisma and PoliticsChapter 6 Extraordinary Times: Charismatic Repertoires in Contemporary African Prophetism; Chapter 7 The Routinization of Improvisation in Avá-Guaraní Shamanic Leadership; Part IV Posthumous Charisma; Chapter 8 Unruly Miracles: Embodied Charisma and Modern Sainthood, from Padre Pio to "Papa Buono"; Chapter 9 Habad, Messianism, and the Phantom Charisma of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, and Amazonian shamans, among others.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Religion.
Sociology.
Sociology of Religion.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Anthropology.
Religious Studies, general.
Sociology, general.