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Subject(s)

• Pentecostalism—United States [Browse]
• Spirituality [Browse]

Series

• Anthropology of Christianity [More in this series]
• The anthropology of Christianity

Summary note

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracl.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Vineyard time
• Institutions and God's agents
• A diagram for fire
• Tolle, Lege : talking, reading, and hearing
• The living room seminars : pedagogies of the spirit, typification, and elaboration
• The body, tongues, healing, and deliverance
• Collapses, traversals, transductions, and intensifications of the part-culture
• Conclusion : on the problem of religion, and on religion as a problem.

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ISBN

• 9780520967410 ((electronic book))
• 0520967410 ((electronic book))
• 0520294203
• 9780520294202

LCCN

2016042081

OCLC

958371557

Doi

• 10.1525/9780520967410

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