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A timely, well-written contribution to our understanding of a number of important phenomena in the contemporary world, this is also a contribution to debates over concepts and methods in anthropological and related scholarship --Erika Bourguignon, Ohio State University <br> Csordas is so familiar with the {Roman Catholic Charismatic} movement ... that he is to a large extent able to overcome the typical problem of the ethnographer--the assertion that his or her research may not be generalizable beyond the local situation. --Peter Stromberg, University of Tulsa <br> This study of the Catholic charismatic renewal succeeds in the difficult feat of speaking both to specialists in a cluster of scholarly disciplines and to the general reader. --R. W. Rousseau, University of Scranton<br>

A timely, well-written contribution to our understanding of a number of important phenomena in the contemporary world, this is also a contribution to debates over concepts and methods in anthropological and related scholarship --Erika Bourguignon, Ohio State University Csordas is so familiar with the {Roman Catholic Charismatic} movement ... that he is to a large extent able to overcome the typical problem of the ethnographer--the assertion that his or her research may not be generalizable beyond the local situation. --Peter Stromberg, University of Tulsa This study of the Catholic charismatic renewal succeeds in the difficult feat of speaking both to specialists in a cluster of scholarly disciplines and to the general reader. --R. W. Rousseau, University of Scranton

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THOMAS J. CSORDAS is Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (California, 1994).

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