Dik Realness through Mediating Body

The Emergence of Charismatic/Pentecostal Communities in Beirut
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0719-7
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 71, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Kirche ? Konfession ? Religion

After the end of the civil war in 1990, the Charismatic/Pentecostal (C/P) movement in Beirut spread across various Christian denominations. C/P believers narrated how Jesus became real to them via the experience of the Holy Spirit. The author explains this impression of realness through embodiment. Ritual practices like testimony and experience of divine agency are experienced as fullness within a post war society and are extended into the every day sphere. This ethnographic account represents the beginning research of C/P Christianity’s emergence in the Middle East and its contribution to social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dik, Oleg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;10
5;Preface;10
6;Abbreviations;12
7;1. Introductory remarks;14
7.1;1.1. Emergence of the central research question and aim;14
7.2;1.2. Methodological procedure and field research in Beirut;17
7.3;1.3. Positioning and contribution;23
8;2. The emergence of Charismatic/Pentecostal communities in Beirut;30
8.1;2.1. Introductory remarks;30
8.1.1;2.1.1. Negotiation of the self-reference “Charismatic/Pentectostal”;30
8.1.2;2.1.2. A comparative perspective;34
8.1.3;2.1.3. Historic context;37
8.1.4;2.1.4. Charismatic/Pentecostal communities in the urban space of Beirut;39
8.1.5;2.1.5. Organisational structure and quantitative estimation;41
8.2;2.2. Ritual as bodily mediation;43
8.2.1;2.2.1. Representing Charismatic/Pentecostal rituals in four communities;43
8.2.2;2.2.2. Approaching ritual from etic and emic perspectives;55
8.2.3;2.2.3. Demarcating ritual;61
8.2.4;2.2.4. Internal cohesion through narrative performance;65
8.2.5;2.2.5. Agency, body and text;71
8.2.5.1;2.2.5.1. Approaching agency from etic and emic perspectives;71
8.2.5.2;2.2.5.2. Divine agency within the Charismatic/Pentecostal body;79
8.2.6;2.2.6. The ritual body within the Lebanese context;94
8.2.6.1;2.2.6.1. The ritual body and material culture;95
8.2.6.2;2.2.6.2. The ritual body and socio-economic conditions;97
8.2.6.3;2.2.6.3. The ritual body and politics;102
8.2.6.4;2.2.6.4. The ritual body and official religion;106
8.2.6.5;2.2.6.5. The ritual body and gender;110
8.2.7;2.2.7. The failure of ritual;115
8.2.8;2.2.8. Conclusion;126
8.3;2.3. Bodily mediation in the everyday life;126
8.3.1;2.3.1. The everyday reality from an etic perspective;126
8.3.2;2.3.2. Ex-tension between the ritual and the everyday;129
8.3.2.1;2.3.2.1. Ritual and socio-economic context;137
8.3.2.2;2.3.2.2. Ritual and politics;144
8.3.2.3;2.3.2.3. Ritual and official religion;150
8.3.2.4;2.3.2.4. Ritual and gender;165
8.3.3;2.3.3. The failure of the mediating body in the everyday life;175
8.3.4;2.3.4. Conclusion;179
8.4;2.4. Testimony as bodily mediation;182
8.4.1;2.4.1. Approaching testimony from etic and emic perspectives;182
8.4.2;2.4.2. Aim, setting and audience of testimony;185
8.4.3;2.4.3. The bodily efficacy of testimony;189
8.4.4;2.4.4. Testimony as mediation between lived and written stories;197
8.4.4.1;2.4.4.1 Testimonies of three Charismatic/Pentecostal leaders;197
8.4.4.2;2.4.4.2. Charismatic/Pentecostal testimony as historiography;204
8.4.5;2.4.5. The failure of testimony;221
8.4.6;2.4.6. Conclusion;224
9;3. Interlude: Sketching theoretical perspectives;228
9.1;3.1. Ontological and ethical inevitability;228
9.2;3.2. Three trajectories in Social Sciences;231
9.2.1;3.2.1. Reductive Naturalism;231
9.2.2;3.2.2. Relativism;235
9.2.3;3.2.3. Non-reductive Naturalism;241
9.3;3.3. God as theoretical possibility;246
9.4;3.4. Conclusion: Theory in tension;252
10;4. Conclusion;256
10.1;4.1. What is realness?;256
10.2;4.2. Charismatic/Pentecostal realness;262
10.3;4.3. Academic realness;265
10.4;4.4. Change of realness;270
10.5;4.5. Projections for further research;277
11;Bibliography;280
12;Object index;290

Über Autor(innen)

Dik, Oleg
Dr Oleg Dik studied Protestant Theology, Religious and Cultural Studies in Germany and Lebanon and received his PhD in Religious Studies. He is a lecturer in Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University Berlin and Leipzig University and leads “Batik”, a Christian-intercultural community center in Berlin.