In this Book
- The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- Chapter 6. Image, Memory, and Efficacy
- pp. 141-164
- Chapter 7. Demons and Deliverance
- pp. 165-199
- Chapter 8. Encounters with Evil
- pp. 200-227
- Chapter 9. The Raging and the Healing
- pp. 228-275
- Chapter 10. Envoi: The Sacred Self
- pp. 276-282
- REFERENCES
- pp. 305-322
- Production Notes
- p. 328
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520919068
Related ISBN(s)
9780520208841
MARC Record
OCLC
797834313
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No