Does it make a difference to think of ritual language such as prayer in terms of a relation between practice…
Thomas J. Csordas
Thomas J. Csordas is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Global Health Program at the University of California, San Diego. Among his publications are The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (1994); Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (1994); Language, Charisma, and Creativity: Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (1997); Body/Meaning/Healing (2002); and Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization (2009).
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Malediction, exorcism, and evil
November 17, 2014
It is best to begin by considering the word malediction in the simple sense of speaking evil or evil-saying. The…