Follower Agency and Charismatic Mobilization in Falun Gong

This article reconsiders sociological theory of charisma through Falun Gong, a transnational Chinese new religious movement that was banned in China in 1999. In spite of widely shared agreement that charismatic authority is based on social interactions between a leader and followers, research on cha...

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Main Author: Junker, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2014
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 418-441
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