The Anthropology of Religious Charisma: Ecstasies and Institutions (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

by Charles Lindholm (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $60.29

  According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, and Amazonian shamans, among others.