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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... Certificate for officeholders, Spirit Apostolic Church, 1999. 203 6. Church Secretary, Siamujulu village, 1995. 205 7. Identity card, Spirit Apostolic Church, 1999. 207 All photographs © Thomas G. Kirsch. Acknowledgements The research ...
... certificates,13 and 'passports to heaven' (Andersson 1958: 160–61). They put the laws of their church into writing,14 produced minutes of committee meetings as well as programmes for, and records of, church services,15 compiled ...
... certificates, identity cards, and registers, were used in the Spirit Apostolic Church in an attempt to establish durable relationships between the different levels of the church leadership, on the one hand, and between the leaders and ...
... certificates issued by an officially recognized denomination (Ragsdale 1986: 59–68). The missions opposed some points in the Native School Proclamations since they placed certain obligations on missionaries while simultaneously ...
... certificates: A Native teacher or inspector in charge of a school or schools must hold a certificate signed by the head of the mission. Such certificate is only to be granted to such as have satisfied the conditions laid down by the ...
Inhalt
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31 | |
33 | |
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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