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The Sacred Self

A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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The Sacred Self

A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520919068

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9780520919068

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity

The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement

By: Thomas J. Csordas

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

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0520324021

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9780520324022

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

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Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

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0520343514

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9780520343511

Kincraft

The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

By: Todne Thomas

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Kincraft

The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

By: Todne Thomas

In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the “Black Church” with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Drawing on fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church association in Atlanta, Thomas locates black evangelicals at the center of their own religious story, presenting their determined spiritual relatedness as a form of insurgency. She outlines how church members cocreate themselves as spiritual kin through what she calls kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. Kincraft, which Thomas traces back to the diasporic histories and migration experiences of church members, reflects black evangelicals' understanding of Christian familial connection as transcending racial, ethnic, and denominational boundaries in ways that go beyond the patriarchal nuclear family. Church members also use their spiritual relationships to navigate racial and ethnic discrimination within the majority-white evangelical movement. By charting kincraft's functions and significance, Thomas demonstrates the ways in which black evangelical social life is more varied and multidimensional than standard narratives of evangelicalism would otherwise suggest.

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Duke University Press

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1478013125

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9781478013129

The Sacred Self

A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

By: Thomas J. Csordas

This is not only a book about healing, however, but also one about the phenomenology of self and self-transformation."--BOOK JACKET.

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0520208846

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal

By: T. Csordas

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal

By: T. Csordas

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 that people who might be regarded by some as 'religious eccentrics' are quite comprehensible in terms of contemporary culture, while at the same time people who might be anyone's neighbors in fact inhabit a profoundly distinct world of experience. This new work makes an original, important contribution to anthropology, sociology, studies of religion and ritual, cultural phenomenology, linguistic-semiotic and rhetorical studies, the multidisciplinary study of social movements, and American Studies.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312294212

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9780312294212

Body, Meaning, Healing

By: T. Csordas

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Body, Meaning, Healing

By: T. Csordas

Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, Body, Meaning, Healing sensitively examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experimental understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity

The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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Language, Charisma, and Creativity

The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement

By: Thomas J. Csordas

A timely, well-written contribution to our understanding of a number of important phenomena in the contemporary world."--Erika Bourguignon, Ohio State University "A timely, well-written contribution to our understanding of a number of important phenomena in the contemporary world."--Erika Bourguignon, Ohio State University

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0520204697

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Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

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Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

By: Janis H. Jenkins,Thomas J. Csordas

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Book's by Thomas J. Csordas

The Sacred Self

The Sacred Self

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Kincraft

Kincraft

The Sacred Self

The Sacred Self

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Body, Meaning, Healing

Body, Meaning, Healing

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Language, Charisma, and Creativity

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment

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