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The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity

Simon Coleman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Apr '07

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This 2000 book is about conservative Protestant Christians and their spread around the globe.

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.This 2000 book analyses the revival of charismatic Protestant Christianity as an example of globalization. Simon Coleman shows that, along with many social movements, these religious conservatives are negotiating their own interpretations of global and postmodern processes. They are constructing an evangelical arena of action and meaning within the liminal, chaotic space of the global. The book examines globalization not only as a social process, but also as an embodied practice involving forms of language and ritualized movement. Charismatic Christianity is presented through its material culture - art, architecture and consumer products - as well as its rhetoric and theology. The book provides an account of the incorporation of electronic media such as television, videos and the Internet into Christian worship. Issues relating to the conduct of fieldwork in contexts of globalization are raised in an account which is also a major ethnography of a Faith ministry.

'Well researched and sympathetic.' Theology
'… an excellent and stimulating analysis of a vigorous religious group.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

ISBN: 9780521036450

Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm x 11mm

Weight: 370g

280 pages