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Spirits and Letters : Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity.

Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challeng...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirsch, Thomas G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 8 |a CH 11-Missions in writingCH 12-Enablements to literacy; Part IV-Bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-Charismatic mode; CH 13-Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma; CH 14-Positions of writers, positions in writings; CH 15-Outlines for the future, documents of the immediate; CH 16-Bureaucracy in-between; CH 17-Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 
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