03143cam a2200445Mi 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007000700055008004100062040004100103020003500144020003200179035002100211035001800232050002200250072002500272082000800297049000900305100002200314245010500336260004500441300003100486505058500517505034001102520060601442588004702048650001402095650002602109650004702135655002202182776017002204856008002374856005202454856010502506938004102611910001602652994001202668999001702680ocn645101208OCoLC20200709055449.0m        d        cr |n|100629s2008    nyu     o     000 0 eng d  aEBLCPbengcEBLCPdIDEBKdOCLCQdN$T  a9780857450104 (electronic bk.)  a0857450107 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)645101208  a416208b(N$T) 4aBR1360 .K565 2008 7aRELx0150002bisacsh04a276  aN$TA1 aKirsch, Thomas G.10aSpirits and Lettersh[electronic resource] :bReading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity.  aNew York :bBerghahn Books, Inc.,c2008.  a1 online resource (286 p.)0 aTitle 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.8 aCH 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.  aStudies 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.  aDescription based on print version record. 4aReligion. 0aChristianityzAfrica. 7aRELIGION / Christianity / History2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.08iPrint version:aKirsch, Thomas G.tSpirits and Letters : Reading, Writing and Charisma in African ChristianitydNew York : Berghahn Books, Inc., c2008z9781845454838403Ebook Libraryuhttp://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=544383403MyiLibraryuhttp://www.myilibrary.com?id=262662403EBSCOhostuhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=416208  aEBL - Ebook LibrarybEBLBnEBL544383  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c50878d50878