The Anthropology of Religious Charisma

1. Introduction: Charisma in Theory and Practice
Charles Lindholm

Part I. Performing Charisma

2. Performing the Charismatic Ritual
Keping Wu

3. Knowledge and Miracles: Modes of Charisma in Syrian Sufism
Paulo G. Pinto

Part II. Gendering Charisma

4. Female Sufis in Syria: Charismatic Authority and Bureaucratic Structure
Gisele Fonseca Chagas

5. The Gender of Charisma: Notes from a Taiwanese Buddhist Transnational NGO
C. Julia Huang-Lemmon

6. Residual Masculinity and the Cultivation of Negative-Charisma in a Caribbean Pentecostal Community
Brendan Jamal Thornton

Part III. Religious Charisma and Politics

7. Extraordinary Times: Charismatic Repertoires in Contemporary African Prophetism
Ruy Llera Blanes

8. The Routinization of Improvisation in Avá-Guaraní Shamanic Leadership
Eric Michael Kelley

Part IV. Posthumous Charisma

9. Unruly Miracles: Embodied Charisma and Modern Sainthood, from Padre Pio to “Papa Buono”
Sara M. Bergstresser

10. Habad, Messianism, and the Phantom Charisma of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Yoram Bilu

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Sociology of Religion, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, general, Sociology, general