
Society, Spirituality, and the Sacred
In Society, Spirituality, and the Sacred, Swenson draws on both Weber''s Charisma and Routinization of Charisma and Thomas O''Dea''s Dilemmas of the Institutionalization of Religion to reveal how religion has both a positive and negative effect on people. Moving from the individual experience of the sacred to the more institutional religious experience, the book explores the many manifestations of...
In Society, Spirituality, and the Sacred, Swenson draws on both Weber''s Charisma and Routinization of Charisma and Thomas O''Dea''s Dilemmas of the Institutionalization of Religion to reveal how religion has both a positive and negative effect on people. Moving from the individual experience of the sacred to the more institutional religious experience, the book explores the many manifestations of...