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Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity
Author(s) -
LUHRMANN TANYA M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.518
Subject(s) - trance , christianity , sociology , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , psychology , religious studies , philosophy , anthropology
Contemporary U.S. religion is shaped by a new emphasis on bodily and trance experience. This article describes the learning process through which evangelical congregants come to use language and bodily experiences in particular ways, which I call here “metakinesis.” Through this process, congregants build remarkably intimate relationships with God.