This book is about conservative Protestant Christians and their spread around the globe. It focuses on "Health and Wealth" Christians. A ministry in Scandinavia is shown to be closely linked to evangelicals in other parts of the world, particularly the United States. The book provides the first extended account by an anthropologist of a Health and Wealth ministry. It makes a major contribution to an understanding of the material lives of these Christians: their art, architecture and uses of electronic technologies such as television, videos and the Internet.
Author(s): Simon Coleman
Series: Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 276
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Illustrations......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
GLOBALISATION AS SOCIAL PROCESS AND EMBODIED PRACTICE......Page 18
CONTEXTS: PERSONAL, INTELLECTUAL, CULTURAL......Page 21
THE ORDER OF CHAPTERS......Page 29
CHAPTER ONE A ‘weird babel of tongues’: charisma in the modern world......Page 31
CONSERVATIVE CHARISMATICS......Page 34
SACRED TEXT AND HOLY TOUCH: FUNDAMENTALISTS AND CHARISMATICS......Page 38
PREACHERS OF PROSPERITY......Page 41
PROSPERITY GOES GLOBAL......Page 45
THE ORIGINS OF FAITH TEACHING......Page 54
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 61
CHAPTER TWO ‘Faith which conquers the world’: globalisation and charisma......Page 63
TRANSFORMATION OR INTENSIFICATION?......Page 66
Media......Page 69
Forms of organisation......Page 70
Orientation......Page 72
THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT......Page 79
CHAPTER THREE Sweden: national ‘state’ and global ‘site’......Page 86
BUILDING THE MIDDLE WAY......Page 89
AN IDEOLOGY OF MODERNITY......Page 94
FROM THE MIDDLE WAY TO A PLURALITY OF PATHS?......Page 96
CHAPTER FOUR The Word of Life: organising global culture......Page 101
ORIGINS......Page 103
STRUCTURES......Page 106
CONNECTIONS......Page 111
ADHERENTS......Page 117
SOCIALITY AND COMMITMENT......Page 123
CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS......Page 127
CHAPTER FIVE Words: from narrative to embodiment......Page 131
NARRATIVE EMPLACEMENT......Page 133
DRAMATISATION......Page 139
INTERNALISATION......Page 141
EXTERNALISATION......Page 145
GLOBALISING HABITUS......Page 147
CHAPTER SIX Aesthetics: from iconography to architecture......Page 157
CHRIST AS BODY-BUILDER......Page 159
BUILDING FAITH......Page 166
CHRIST AS CHILD AND MAN......Page 171
CHAPTER SEVEN Broadcasting the faith......Page 180
MEDIATED PRACTICES......Page 182
FRAMING CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 186
TECHNOLOGISING THE SELF......Page 195
CHAPTER EIGHT Expansive agency......Page 201
PRACTISING PROSPERITY......Page 202
THE CHARISMATIC GIFT......Page 210
AGENCY, POWER AND PERSONHOOD......Page 219
CHAPTER NINE Contesting the nation......Page 222
CONTROVERSY......Page 224
RESPONSES AND REDEFINITIONS......Page 235
A MICROCOSM OF GLOBALISATION?......Page 240
CHAPTER TEN The Word and the world......Page 245
A GLOBAL LANDSCAPE OF FAITH?......Page 250
References......Page 255
Index......Page 273
