03143cam a2200445Mi 4500 ocn645101208 OCoLC 20200709055449.0 m d cr |n| 100629s2008 nyu o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP IDEBK OCLCQ N$T 9780857450104 (electronic bk.) 0857450107 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)645101208 416208 (N$T) BR1360 .K565 2008 REL 015000 bisacsh 276 N$TA Kirsch, Thomas G. Spirits and Letters [electronic resource] : Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008. 1 online resource (286 p.) Title page-Spirits and Letter; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Language; Introduction; Part I-Histories and Ethnographies; CH 1-Colonial literacies; CH 2-Passages, configurations, traces; CH 3-Schooled literacy, schooled religion; Part II-Literate Religion; CH 4-Literate cultures in a material world; CH 5-Indices to the scriptural; CH 6-The fringes of Christianity; CH 7-Thoughts about 'Religions of the book'; Part III-Ways of Reading; CH 8-Texts, readers, spirit; CH 9-Evanescence and the necessity of intermediation; CH 10-Setting Texts in Motion. CH 11-Missions in writingCH 12-Enablements to literacy; Part IV-Bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-Charismatic mode; CH 13-Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma; CH 14-Positions of writers, positions in writings; CH 15-Outlines for the future, documents of the immediate; CH 16-Bureaucracy in-between; CH 17-Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 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 scholarly notions of the relationship between 'charisma' and 'institution' by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practi. Description based on print version record. Religion. Christianity Africa. RELIGION / Christianity / History bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Kirsch, Thomas G. Spirits and Letters : Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., c2008 9781845454838 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=544383 MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=262662 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=416208 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL544383 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50878 50878