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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778862703321

Autore

Csordas Thomas J

Titolo

The sacred self : a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing / / Thomas J. Csordas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

1-280-67147-5

9786613648402

0-520-91906-8

0-585-13547-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vxi, 327 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

234.131

Soggetti

Spiritual healing

Pentecostalism - Catholic Church

Pentecostalism - New England

Self

Identification (Religion)

New England Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritual Healing: Affliction and Transformation -- 3. Therapeutic Process and Experience -- 4. Embodied Imagery and Divine Revelation -- 5. Imaginal Performance and Healing of Memories -- 6. Image, Memory, and Efficacy -- 7. Demons and Deliverance -- 8. Encounters with Evil -- 9. The Raging and the Healing -- 10. Envoi: The Sacred Self -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.