Language and Self-Transformation : A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521440777
ISBN-13
9780521440776
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 1993
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsChristian spirituality & religious experienceChristianity
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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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