Hasidism and Moonism: Charisma in the Counterculture
This paper examines the mechanism of charismatic authority and the nature of religious life as advocated by two genres of charismatic religion: Hasidism and The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Both the Jewish and Neo-Christian examples achieved prominence in the co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1980
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1980, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 375-390 |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the mechanism of charismatic authority and the nature of religious life as advocated by two genres of charismatic religion: Hasidism and The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Both the Jewish and Neo-Christian examples achieved prominence in the counterculture during the seventies. The paper argues that: (1) Weber's notions of the inherent precariousness of charismatic leadership and its requirement for empirical verification need modification; (2) charismatic authority appears more intimately related to a fixed norm than Weber suggested; (3) the twin processes of infantilization (the overconcretizing of a symbol) and scientism (truth comes only from the scientific method) have resulted in an apparent confusion of divine and human roles; and (4) the lack of clarity concerning transcendence as a referent has yielded a vulgarized form of homo religious. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709891 |