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Book SynopsisWhat 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? This book deaks with these questions.
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A Diagram of Fire succeeds both as general theory and as finely drawn ethnography." * Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION: CLEARLY WRITTEN ON HIS FACE 1. VINEYARD TIME 2. INSTITUTIONS AND GOD'S AGENTS 3. A DIAGRAM FOR FIRE 4. TOLLE, LEGE: TALKING, READING, AND HEARING 5. THE LIVING ROOM SEMINARS: PEDAGOGIES OF THE SPIRIT, TYPIFICATION, AND ELABORATION 6. THE BODY, TONGUES, HEALING, AND DELIVERANCE 7. COLLAPSES, TRAVERSALS, AND INTENSIFICATIONS OF THE PART-CULTURE CONCLUSION: ON THE PROBLEM OF RELIGION AND ON RELIGION AS A PROBLEM NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX COMPLETE SERIES LIST
