Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity

Zusammenfassung Charismatic Christianity is presented through its material culture - art! architecture and consumer products - as well as its rhetoric and theology. This 2000 book provides an account of the incorporation of electronic media such as television! videos and the Internet into Christian worship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. A 'weird babel of tongues': charisma in the modern world; 2. 'Faith which conquers the world': globalisation and charisma; 3. Sweden: national 'state' and global 'site'; 4. The word of life: organising global culture; 5. Words: from narrative to embodiment; 6. Aesthetics: from iconography to architecture; 7. Broadcasting the faith; 8. Expansive agency; 9. Contesting the nation; 10. The word and the world; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Coleman, Simon (University of Durham) Coleman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780521036450
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03645-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories