Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Drawing on fieldwork conducted in an African evangelical congregation in Montreal, I examine the conversion narrative of a new member. I show that experience of ritual performance is a key element in her trajectory. Various techniques of ritual are used to create an emotional atmosphere that shifts the frame of perception, preparing the would-be member to accept a new system of meaning and a new sense of belonging. In this setting, the "somatic mode of attention" gives rise to a new process of subjectivation which involves the recoding, transformation and purification of the body, the spirit and the self.
Source: Anthropologica
Author: Géraldine Mossière
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W224796227