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| Autor/in | Corder, Lloyd E. |
|---|---|
| Titel | Charisma and Christianity: Is Jimmy Lee Swaggart a Cynic? |
| Quelle | (1988), (21 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Clergy; Content Analysis; Persuasive Discourse; Public Speaking; Religious Differences; Religious Organizations; Rhetoric; Rhetorical Criticism; Speeches; Television |
| Abstract | Since the advent of cable television in the early seventies, the success of television evangelists including Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, Robert Schuller, and Jimmy Swaggart has grown, both in terms of finances and in conversion of souls. Although many television preachers use similar strategies for getting donations, their backgrounds and messages are largely different. These preachers can be classified as evangelicals, fundamentalists, Pentecostals, or charismatics. Jimmy Swaggart, the television evangelist with the strongest following in America is, in religious terms, a charismatic, or neo-Pentecostal leader. When analyzed according to Max Weber's definitions of political leadership, Swaggart's leadership style is also charismatic. An analysis of three of Swaggart's speeches using Theodore Windt's characteristics of political leadership gives further insight into Swaggart's charisma. In Windt's analysis, charismatic leaders: (1) possess unique gifts that other men do not share; (2) are perceived as extraordinary; (3) arise in times of turmoil; (4) are part of a messianic movement; and (5) are part of a movement that contains contradictions that only faith in a leader can resolve. Swaggart's rhetoric contains many examples of all but the final of Windt's characteristics. This calls into question the idea that contradiction is an important aspect of charisma. (ARH) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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