The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520208841)

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.

Author: Thomas J. Csordas
ISBN-10: 0520208846
ISBN-13: 9780520208841
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/1997
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.98d