The Sacred Self(English, Paperback, Csordas Thomas J.)

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The Sacred Self(English, Paperback, Csordas Thomas J.) is written by Csordas Thomas J. and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520208846 (ISBN 10) and 9780520208841 (ISBN 13).

How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. This is not only a book about healing, however, but also one about the nature of self and self- transformation. Blending ethnographic data and detailed case studies, Csordas examines processes of sensory imagery, performative utterance, orientation, and embodiment. His book forms the basis for a rapprochement between phenomenology and semiotics in culture theory that will interest anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, physicians, and students of comparative religion and healing.