The Holy Spirit as Conscience Collective
Catholic Charismatics often talk about “God,” “Jesus,” “the Holy Spirit,” or simply “the Lord” as an active partner in interaction. Most sociologists regard such statements as outside the epistemological purview of an empirical discipline; God is relegated to the inaccessible domain of the “specific...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1999
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1999, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 341-361 |
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| Summary: | Catholic Charismatics often talk about “God,” “Jesus,” “the Holy Spirit,” or simply “the Lord” as an active partner in interaction. Most sociologists regard such statements as outside the epistemological purview of an empirical discipline; God is relegated to the inaccessible domain of the “specifically religious.” In this paper I suggest that “the Holy Spirit” is a manifestation of a learnable pattern of social interaction that may generate a superindividual dialogic unity, what Durkheim called a conscience collective, or what has more recently been called shared or distributed cognition. The internalization of this intersubjective process then becomes the basis for the intrasubjective experience of dialogue with the divine. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3712020 |