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Language and Self-Transformation

A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative

by Peter G. Stromberg

  • Hardback
  • 168 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For scholars and believers interested in conversion stories

Explains how narratives impact personal transformation

You will gain insight into faith and emotional healing

This book explores how Christian conversion narratives transform lives through language.

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Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their faith and changes their lives. This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. Through detailed analysis of a number of conversion narratives, Peter Stromberg shows how these narratives can be understood as a form of ritual, in which believers invoke central emotional conflicts and then attempt to resolve these conflicts by reframing them in terms of the language of Evangelical Christianity. Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
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  • Author

    Peter G. Stromberg

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 1993

  • Weight

    423g

  • Page Count

    168

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521440776

  • ISBN-10

    0521440777

  • Eden Code

    1151515

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