TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stromberg,Peter G
TI  - Language and self-transformation: a study of the Christian conversion narrative 
T2  - Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
SN  - 9780521440776
AV  - BR110.S921.L364 1993 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York, New York, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religious experiences
N1  - 1 (pages 138-144) and index; 2
N2  - 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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