Spirits and Letters: Reading, Writing and Charisma in African ChristianityBerghahn Books, 01.05.2008 - 288 Seiten Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between ‘charisma’ and ‘institution’ by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices among African Christians, this volume explores how church leaders in Zambia refer to the Bible and other religious literature, and how they organise a church bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-charismatic mode. Thus, by examining social processes and conflicts that revolve around the conjunction of Pentecostal-charismatic and literacy practices in Africa, Spirits and Letters reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social sciences and the humanities and is therefore of interest not only to anthropologists but also to scholars working in the fields of African studies, religious studies, and the sociology of religion. |
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... PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MODE 13 Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma 183 Bureaucracy as Social Practice 184 Organizational Formalization as a Founding Myth 188 Dispersing Charisma, Allocating Offices 190 Charisma, Hierarchies ...
... Pentecostal Church of Zambia', Zeitschriftfür Ethnologie 128(2): 213–31. Kirsch, T. 2007. 'Ways of Reading as Religious Power in Print Globalization', American Ethnologist34(3): 509–20. Notes on Language Some remarks should be made ...
... Pentecostal-charismatic church in Zambia in March 1999 touches on the main theme of this book which addresses a long-standing question in the history ofideas and which reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social ...
... Pentecostal-charismatic movements. As David Maxwell has persuasively demonstrated in his recent study of the origin and development of Pentecostalism in southern Africa, these movements not only share an emphasis on the 'pneumatic ...
... Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in contemporary Africa. Taking up the continuing scholarly interest in Pentecostal-charismatic churches in Africa (Meyer 2004a), and focusing on religious 'literacy practices' – that is, 'behaviour ...
Inhalt
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31 | |
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CH 2Passages configurations traces | 53 |
CH 3Schooled literacy schooled religion | 71 |
Part IILiterate Religion | 83 |
CH 4Literate cultures in a material world | 85 |
CH 5Indices to the scriptural | 95 |
CH 10Setting Texts in Motion | 145 |
CH 11Missions in writing | 155 |
CH 12Enablements to literacy | 169 |
Part IVBureaucracy in the PentecostalCharismatic mode | 181 |
CH 13Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma | 183 |
CH 14Positions of writers positions in writings | 201 |
CH 15Outlines for the future documents of the immediate | 213 |
CH 16Bureaucracy inbetween | 227 |
CH 6The fringes of Christianity | 105 |
CH 7Thoughts about Religions of the book | 117 |
Part IIIWays of Reading | 123 |
CH 8Texts readers spirit | 125 |
CH 9Evanescence and the necessity of intermediation | 137 |
CH 17Epilogue | 243 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 267 |
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