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By:"Mary Jo Neitz"
Published on 1987 by Transaction Publishers
Since Comte, social scientists have tended to assume that modè\u008b\u009frnization, along with a trièµ´mphant scientific rationality, has destroyed the legitimacy of religion as a social reality. However, this crisis of legitè\u0099¹macy has never been examined in a setting where religious realè\u0099¹ty is affirmed. This book fills that gap, exploring the meaning of religious reality in the lives of a group of Catholic Charismatics to discover how belief is created, developed, and maintained. Charismatics, or Neo-Pentecostals, tend to be white, relaè² ively affluent, well educated, and believe that they possess certain gifts including the power of healing, prophesy, discernè¡«ent of evil spirits, and speakè\u0099¹ng in tongues. In describing and analyzing this religious minority, the author provides a basis for reevaluating sociological asè²\u009eumptions about religion and modernity. She asks: to what exè² ent can religion define the soè\u008b\u009eial world? Are religious values necessarily irrelevant to most institutional contexts? Is reè¡\u008digious reality only persuasive in the context of family and priè¡«ary group relations? What are the tensions between religious realities and other beliefs? Her answers have implications for all ways of making sense of the world, including common sense or science. Neitz situates the Charismatic Renewal in a broader social and historical context. She examines the antecedents of Neo-Pentecostalism in American culture and compares this movement with the secular, self-awareness movement. In so doing she shows what is unique about the Charismatics, and what they share with religious predeè\u008b\u009eessors and members of contemè¨\u0088orary secular movements.
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