Language and Self-Transformation
A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative
Part of Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
- Author: Peter G. Stromberg, University of Tulsa
- Date Published: June 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521031363
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Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their faith and changes their lives. This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. Through detailed analysis of a number of conversion narratives, Peter Stromberg shows how these narratives can be understood as a form of ritual, in which believers invoke central emotional conflicts and then attempt to resolve these conflicts by reframing them in terms of the language of Evangelical Christianity. Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Read more- A unique book, as it is the first study of conversion which focuses on the actual language of conversion
- Besides the obvious academic audience, it will also appeal to seminarians, church counsellors, and psychotherapists
- A valuable contribution to sociology of culture in trying to explain how cultural symbols come to (re)constitute individual experience
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- Date Published: June 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521031363
- length: 168 pages
- dimensions: 232 x 152 x 9 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Character and intention
3. Boundaries
4. Dreams
5. Miracles
6. Roles
7. Against a theory of volition
Appendix.
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