Spirits and Letters : : Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity / / Thomas G. Kirsch.
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing schola...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Language
- Introduction
- PART I. HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
- Chapter 1 Colonial Literacies
- Chapter 2 Passages, Configurations, Traces
- Chapter 3 Schooled Literacy, Schooled Religion
- PART II. LITERATE RELIGION
- Chapter 4 Literate Cultures in a Material World
- Chapter 5 Indices to the Scriptural
- Chapter 6 The Fringes of Christianity
- Chapter 7 Thoughts about ‘Religions of the Book’
- PART III. WAYS OF READING
- Chapter 8 Texts, Readers, Spirit
- Chapter 9 Evanescence and the Necessity of Intermediation
- Chapter 10 Setting Texts in Motion
- Chapter 11 Missions in Writing
- Chapter 12 Enablements to Literacy
- PART IV BUREAUCRACY IN THE PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MODE
- Chapter 13 Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma
- Chapter 14 Positions of Writers, Positions in Writings
- Chapter 15 Outlines for the Future, Documents of the Immediate
- Chapter 16 Bureaucracy In-between
- Bibliography
- Index