Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/BSedwD The Sacred Self A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing By: Thomas J. Csordas Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520208841, 0520208846 eText ISBN: 9780520919068, 0520919068 Edition: 1st Pages: 344 Format: PDF Available from $ 31.95 USD SKU 9780520919068 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.
