The Sacred Self A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing
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How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. This is not only a book about healing, however, but also one about the nature of self and self- transformation. Blending ethnographic data and detailed case studies, Csordas examines processes of sensory imagery, performative utterance, orientation, and embodiment. His book forms the basis for a rapprochement between phenomenology and semiotics in culture theory that will interest anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, physicians, and students of comparative religion and healing.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520208841 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 11 Jun 1997 |
DEWEY: | 234.13 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 327 |
Weight: | 536g |
Height: | 227mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |