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Language and Self-Transformation
A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative

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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example! this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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Authors Peter G. Stromberg, Peter G. (University of Tulsa) Stromberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 26.06.2008
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
 
EAN 9780521031363
ISBN 978-0-521-03136-3
Pages 168
 
Series Publications of the Society fo > 5
 

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