Max Weber and Charisma: A Transatlantic Affair

Derman, Joshua

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“…As Joshua Derman has argued in his article "Max Weber and Charisma: A Transatlantic Affair", the popularized concept of "charisma", akin to religious star-power, found its way to American social theory only after a long process ( [12], pp. 87-88).…”

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“…87-88). Derman demonstrated that initially the American political theoreticians used the Weberian concept of "charisma" to address the demagogic powers of Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators ( [12], pp. 72-81).…”

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“…72-81). By the 1950s, the concept's power of explanation shifted toward non-European societies as the American thinkers primarily employed it to explain the emergence of new societies in post-colonial Asia and Africa ( [12], pp. 81-86); but by the late 1960s a broadened and rather diluted version of the concept "charisma" established itself as one of the theoretical lenses that the American intellectuals used to view their own pluralistic society.…”

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“…Derman summed: "Max Weber found a place in American intellectual life because he proved himself useful for thinking with. He helped Americans articulate issues that mattered to them, address developments that loomed on their own social and political horizons" ( [12], p. 88).…”

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Charisma, Diversity, and Religion in the American City— A Reflection

Lehmijoki-Gardner

2014

Religions

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Abstract:The faith leaders of North American cities actively engage in the civic affairs of their urban communities. Religious leadership, charismatic preaching, and, possibly, reputation of prophetic powers, continue to play important roles especially in the African American civic leaders' rise to public authority. The article reflects on the twenty-first-century significance of Max Weber's concept of "charisma" in interpreting the civic involvement of urban religious leaders in one city in particular, Baltimore. The article suggests that within the context of Baltimore's dramatic challenges associated with urban poverty, violence, and racial and socio-economic health disparities, charismatic religious leadership continues as a recognized form of communal authority especially among the city's African Americans. The article suggests that the gender dynamics of contemporary charismatic leadership appears strikingly similar to another time period and place, also analyzed by Weber-namely, medieval Europe. Just as an intense personal faith granted some medieval religious women authority and position they would not have had in the institutions reserved for men, so too the religious leadership and personal experiences of faith support the urban advocacy of African American women leaders.

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Section: Weber In Americamentioning

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Section: Weber In Americamentioning

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Section: Weber In Americamentioning

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Charisma, Diversity, and Religion in the American City— A Reflection

Lehmijoki-Gardner

2014

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“…Some of these objections were moral, 1 but the main sociological discomfort with charisma stemmed from perceptions of an essentialist “individualism” (Shils 1965:202) or “trait atomism” (Parsons 1963:lxxiii) in Weber’s formulation (see also Derman 2011:53, 67-68)—that is, the anagogic notion that charismatic qualities are inborn, not subject to the normal forces of socialization, even miraculous and God-given (Adair-Toteff 2002; Swatos and Kivisto 1991). By contrast, traditional disciplinary norms suggest that the sociological mandate is to map and scrutinize the structural firmaments of power (Mills [1956] 1999), thereby acting as a salve to fascinations with lonely geniuses, explaining them “from without,” via social, political, and cultural contextualizations (DeNora 1997; Geertz 1977; Lindholm 2013; Palmer 2008; Smith 2000; Willner and Willner 1965).…”

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Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Joosse

2017

Sociological Theory

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While several studies have explored the interactional dynamics of charismatic power, most have neglected the role of what Weber termed the charismatic aristocracy. This article revives the classical concept to respond to contemporary calls for performative, followercentric approaches to charisma. Specifically, the charismatic aristocracy is placed at the center of an analysis of a reiterative moment in charismatization: when influential followers generate content for the emerging charismatic persona. In these germinal moments, the dialogical nature of charisma is most clear, precisely because it is then that charismatic leaders often are not themselves confident in their status and can be found responding to instructional cues-indeed following the lead-of those positioning themselves as obsequious followers. Drawing on 10 years of observations, multistage interviews, and media collections, I provide an interactionist account of the charismatic emergence of John de Ruiter, leader of a successful new religious movement. I conclude by tabling a model that conceives of the charismatic aristocracy as an important fulcrum for expectation, affectation, and recognition in charismatic interactions.

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Introduction: Islam, Religious Authority and Islamist Movements in the Age of Globalisation

Mohiuddin

2023

Navigating Religious Authority in Muslim Societies

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Max Weber and Charisma: A Transatlantic Affair

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Charisma, Diversity, and Religion in the American City— A Reflection

Charisma, Diversity, and Religion in the American City— A Reflection

Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Introduction: Islam, Religious Authority and Islamist Movements in the Age of Globalisation

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