Burke in the archives : using the past to transform the future of Burkean studies / edited by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The charismatic movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term "charismatic" refers to the "gifts of the Holy Spirit"--Speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment--said to be available to Christians who have surrendered their lives to Christ. Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture takes readers on a journey to discover the history of the movement and the reasons why more and more Christians are finding the charismatic experience so meaningful. Leading scholars in the fields of religion and anthropology discuss the thought patterns and religious traditions of charismatics throughout the world. By examining believers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the contributors provide a comprehensive overview of a charismatic tapestry that appears to transcend national, ethnic, racial, and class boundaries. In her introduction, Karla Poewe describes how believers attempt to integrate mind, body, and spirit, thereby providing for a more holistic religious experience. Poewe points out that charismatic Christianity and Pentecostalism have suffered from academic biases in the past; this book is one of the first to place the charismatic experience in an academic framework.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Abbreviations for Works -- Introduction: Retrospective Prospecting-Notes toward a Future -- Burke by the Letters: Exploring the Kenneth Burke Archives -- Finding the Time for Burke -- Burke, Mumford, and the Poetics of Technology: Marxism's Influence on Burke's Critique of Techno-logology -- Burke and Jameson: Reflections on Language, Ideology, and Criticism -- On the Limits of Human: Haggling with Burke's "Definition of Man" -- Burke and the Positive Potentials of Technology: Recovering the "Complete Literary Event" -- Burke in/on Public and Private: Rhetoric, Propaganda, and the "End(s)" of Humanism -- The Dramatism Debate, Archived: The Pentad as "Terministic" Ontology -- Notes from the Abyss: Variations on a (Mystical) Theme in Burke's Work -- "Talk about how your language is constructed": Kenneth Burke's Vision for University-wide Dialogue -- Historiography by Incongruity -- Afterword: My Archival Habit -- Contributors -- Index.

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