{"product_id":"stories-senses-and-the-charismatic-relation-1","title":"Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation\u003c\/em\u003e offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account of how devotional worlds become real – how they are experienced, shaped, constituted and performed by those who live them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book starts from a reflexive exploration of the author’s own experiences of the divine, considers the spiritual journeys of family members and the ‘spiritual community’ of which he was a part, and draws on ethnographic fieldwork in the southern Balkans where that community was based. Jamie Barnes considers three main elements: firstly, the role that sensory aspects of experience play in constituting one’s lived world and one’s ideas about the kinds of beings inhabiting it; secondly, how stories and metaphors are tactically employed, not only in the process of expressing aspects of past experience, but also in shaping and forming both desired worlds and future pathways; thirdly, how such sensed, narrated and lived worlds are tentatively held together - in hope, trust and love – through charismatic relationships of devotion with a divine Other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unusual and innovative ethnography offers a unique and reflexive view \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the world of Christian experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237385982296,"sku":"9781138315297","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138315297_6d8c69c6-0e5e-4153-8049-57d05108bcfd.jpg?v=1770173147","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stories-senses-and-the-charismatic-relation-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}