Language and Self-Transformation : A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative

Name: Language and Self-Transformation
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521031363
Price: 6500 KES
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ISBN: 9780521031363

by Peter G. Stromberg

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521031362

ISBN-13 9780521031363

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 26th, 2008

Print length 168 Pages

Weight 252 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 16.70 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Sociolinguistics Christian spirituality & religious experience Christianity

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Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.

Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their faith and changes their lives. This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. Through detailed analysis of a number of conversion narratives, Peter Stromberg shows how these narratives can be understood as a form of ritual, in which believers invoke central emotional conflicts and then attempt to resolve these conflicts by reframing them in terms of the language of Evangelical Christianity. Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.

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