Charisma

Alan BRYMAN; William Peter BAEHR

Charisma

Alan BRYMAN, William Peter BAEHR

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

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Abstract

Today ‘charisma’ is mostly employed to describe a heroic or extraordinary quality of an individual person, but the term's history is curious and complex. From obscure beginnings in early Christian usage, where it meant ‘the gift of grace’, charisma is now a popular catchword among journalists and lay people alike. Its twentieth-first-century connotations, and the debate it has occasioned, are inseparable from the thought of Max Weber (1864–1920).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought
Publisher	Blackwell Publishers
Pages	67-69
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	9780631221647
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

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