Sitting in Silence
Self, Emotion, and Tradition in the Genesis of a Charismatic Ministry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2474650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Schrauwers (0000-0002-4096-0810, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 430-452 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/eth.2001.29.4.430 |
| OpenAlex | W2162772852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
David Willson was the charismatic leader of a small Utopian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace (1812-89), who prophesied a millenarian transformation of the British empire. This article examines the confluence of social forces and historical conditions that made this charismatic ministry possible. Following Csordas, the emphasis is placed on the means by which followership is created, rather than on the personality of the leader. I argue that Willson's charismatic leadership was predicated upon inculcating a distinctive habitus, on shaping and molding cultural conceptions of self and of emotion, which create the distinctive disposition to obey infollowers. A "theology of mind" was critical to Willson's ministry, and the culturally and historically distinctive emotions and dispositions it described were inculcated in the communal ritual practice of "sitting in silence
Aesthetics · Charisma · Charismatic authority · Christian ministry · Ethnography · Followership · Habitus · Millenarianism · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2018 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |