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Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil
even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the
concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological
implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of
evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of
ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging
evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as
violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the
darkest side of human existence.
Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. Csordas describes the movement's internal diversity and traces its development and expansion across 30 years. He offers insights into the contemporary nature of rationality, the transformation of space and time in Charismatic daily life, gender discipline, the blurring of boundaries between ritual and everyday life, the sense of community forged through shared ritual participation, and the creativity of language and metaphor in prophetic utterance. Charisma, Csordas proposes, is a collective self-process, located not in the personality of a leader, but in the rhetorical resources mobilized by participants in ritual performance. His examination of ritual language and ritual performance illuminates this theory in relation to the postmodern condition of culture.
In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth
ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land
of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized
for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H.
Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic
distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of
managed care that dominates the mental health care system.
 The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in
the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions,
characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical
to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence
disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their
families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty,
misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms
of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas
compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived
experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having
a life.
Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil
even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the
concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological
implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of
evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of
ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging
evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as
violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the
darkest side of human existence.
In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth
ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land
of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized
for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H.
Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic
distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of
managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The
authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives
of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized
by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the
analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed
through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as
they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and
stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and
sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our
attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional
power, and the very possibility of having a life.
This innovative collection examines the transnational movements,
effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world,
offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between
globalization and religion. "Transnational Transcendence
"challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship--in
particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an
economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are
secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains
understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about
globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain
forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they
cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J.
Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further
development of a theory of religion and globalization and
constitutes an important step toward that theory.
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.
Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are inscribed on the body. The unifying theme of these essays is that the body is at once a fount of symbols and the instrument of experience. This more complex and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1997.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1997.
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