"Experiencing the Closeness of God": Mediated Religious Experience and the Role of Authority in the Pentecostal Faith Church in Budapest - Softcover

Pažitná, Žofia

 
9783838335056: "Experiencing the Closeness of God": Mediated Religious Experience and the Role of Authority in the Pentecostal Faith Church in Budapest
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3838335058 ISBN 13: 9783838335056
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity is shaking the world with emphasis on a vigorous community, missionary work, strong family and individual, personal relationship to God and not in the last place, accent on prosperous health and business. This book is an ethnographic study of a manifestation of this global movement in Hungary. The focus lies on a new type of religious experience that the Pentecostal/Charismatic religion offers to its followers in Faith Church in Budapest, with vivid understanding of the transcendental in the believer’s life and the experience of closeness of God, regarded as religious sensations. Considering religious sensations is an innovative approach in understanding religious experience, as it encompasses not only the feelings experienced during sensations, but also their mediation and induction. The role of narratives, bodily movements and the charismatic leadership of this church are analyzed with respect to the creation and mediation of religious experience.

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Reseña del editor

Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity is shaking the world with emphasis on a vigorous community, missionary work, strong family and individual, personal relationship to God and not in the last place, accent on prosperous health and business. This book is an ethnographic study of a manifestation of this global movement in Hungary. The focus lies on a new type of religious experience that the Pentecostal/Charismatic religion offers to its followers in Faith Church in Budapest, with vivid understanding of the transcendental in the believer’s life and the experience of closeness of God, regarded as religious sensations. Considering religious sensations is an innovative approach in understanding religious experience, as it encompasses not only the feelings experienced during sensations, but also their mediation and induction. The role of narratives, bodily movements and the charismatic leadership of this church are analyzed with respect to the creation and mediation of religious experience.

Biografía del autor

The author was born in Komárno, Slovakia in 1985. Shecompleted her BA at University Utrecht in the Netherlands and herMA at Central European University in Hungary. Her researchinterests are in the field of Anthropology of Religion: globalreligious movements and media, religious conversion, leadershipand religious experience in Pentecostalism.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3838335058
ISBN 13 
9783838335056
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
56
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