Jamie Barnes

Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation (eBook, ePUB)

A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account of how devotional worlds become real - how they are experienced, shaped, constituted and performed by those who live them.

The book starts from a reflexive exploration of the author's own experiences of the divine, considers the spiritual journeys of family members and the 'spiritual community' of which he was a part, and draws on ethnographic fieldwork in the southern Balkans where that community was based. Jamie Barnes considers three main elements: firstly, the role that sensory aspects of experience play in constituting one's lived world and one's ideas about the kinds of beings inhabiting it; secondly, how stories and metaphors are tactically employed, not only in the process of expressing aspects of past experience, but also in shaping and forming both desired worlds and future pathways; thirdly, how such sensed, narrated and lived worlds are tentatively held together - in hope, trust and love - through charismatic relationships of devotion with a divine Other.

This unusual and innovative ethnography offers a unique and reflexive view from within the world of Christian experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429851681
• Artikelnr.: 60084436

Autorenporträt

Jamie Barnes is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Sussex, where he also completed his doctorate in Social Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation
2.Spiritual Community: Metaphorical Moves, Open Hearts and Invited Intruders
3.Open Doors, Crossing Thresholds and Navigating Relational Paths
4.Closed Doors, Christian Disciples and the Charismatic Dilemma
Conclusion

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Introduction; 1. Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation; 2.Spiritual Community: Metaphorical Moves, Open Hearts and Invited Intruders; 3.Open Doors, Crossing Thresholds and Navigating Relational Paths; 4.Closed Doors, Christian Disciples and the Charismatic Dilemma; Conclusion