Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative: 5 (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Stromberg, Peter G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521440777 ISBN 13: 9780521440776

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.

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Review

"His [Stromberg's] transcriptions are especially valuable because they provide vivid illustration of the nature of contemporary conversions and, through the salient differences between these and the more ancient paradigms, are provocative for studies of the evolution in doctrines of conversion over the course of two millenia. Stromberg's arguments are pointedly relevant to the contemporary experiences of metanoia and, in their own ways, validate the power of those experiences to transform and to heal." Semiotica

"So painstaking and detailed is this analysis....Stromberg writes as a psychological anthropologist, but his book will be of interest to a much wider audience; any serious student of conversion will find this argument interesting." Choice

"This is an important work for those who are working with or indeed telling EHE narratives." Exceptional Human Experience

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521440777
• ISBN 13: 9780521440776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168