Diagram for Fire (eBook)

Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement

Jon Bialecki (Autor)

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2017
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96741-0 (ISBN)

Infos

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can performbiblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing changesurprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries.

Inhalt

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION: CLEARLY WRITTEN ON HIS FACE
1. VINEYARD TIME
2. INSTITUTIONS AND GOD’S AGENTS
3. A DIAGRAM FOR FIRE
4. TOLLE, LEGE: TALKING, READING, AND HEARING
5. THE LIVING ROOM SEMINARS: PEDAGOGIES OF THE SPIRIT, TYPIFICATION, AND ELABORATION
6. THE BODY, TONGUES, HEALING, AND DELIVERANCE
7. COLLAPSES, TRAVERSALS, AND INTENSIFICATIONS OF THE PART-CULTURE
CONCLUSION: ON THE PROBLEM OF RELIGION AND ON RELIGION AS A PROBLEM

NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
COMPLETE SERIES LIST

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity
• Reihe/Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: America • American History • Bible • Biblical • charismatic evangelicalism • charismatic religious practices • Christian • Christian History • Christianity • christian living • Christian Music • Church history • Conservative • economy • ethnographic • evangelicalism • miracles • Miraculous • music • pentecostal • Politics • Progressive • Religion • Religious Studies • Sociocultural • Southern California • The Vineyard • Vineyard • Worship
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96741-0 / 0520967410
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96741-0 / 9780520967410