A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (The Anthropology of Christianity 21)
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A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (The Anthropology of Christianity 21)

A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (The Anthropology of Christianity 21)

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Jon Bialecki (Author)  

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What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change-surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries. 1 line art
Jon Bialecki is a fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His work has been published in several edited volumes as well as in academic journals such as the South Atlantic Quarterly, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Theory, Current Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
  • Contributor: Jon Bialecki
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520294219
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 408
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2017-04-11
  • Series: The Anthropology of Christianity
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jon Bialecki is a fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His work has been published in several edited volumes as well as in academic journals such as the South Atlantic Quarterly, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Theory, Current Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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