Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and Its Institutionalization

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Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to bear in mind the sources of up to date nation building. Seligman analyzes how cultural assumptions of collective identity and social authority emerged out of the religious beliefs of the first generation of settlers in New England. He goes on to inspect how these assumptions crystallized three generations later into patterns of normative order, forming the foundation of an American consciousness. Seligman uses sociological research grounded in early American history as his laboratory, and does so in a highly original way.

Seligman uses Max Weber’s paradigm of sociological inquiry to explore how a combination of ideational and structural factors helped to develop up to date conceptions of authority and collective identity among New England communities. Seligman addresses a variety of significant issues, including social change, the mutual interaction and development of process and structure, and the role of aura within the forging of a social order. His book profoundly increases our figuring out of the ideological and social processes prevalent in early American history in addition to their recent influence on civil identity.

Innerworldly Individualism uniquely intertwines sociological study with cultural history. It uses American history to develop and elucidate problems of broad theoretical significance. Seligman’s argument is bolstered by a close examination of concrete detail. His book can be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists, and historians of American culture.

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