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Varieties of charisma: Serious and u...

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale., Sociology.

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Varieties of charisma: Serious and unserious forms of the extraordinary .

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Varieties of charisma: Serious and unserious forms of the extraordinary ./
作者:	Mason, Teri J.
面頁冊數:	373 p.
附註:	Adviser: Thomas Burger.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3264815
ISBN:	9780549034797

Varieties of charisma: Serious and unserious forms of the extraordinary .
Mason, Teri J.

Varieties of charisma: Serious and unserious forms of the extraordinary . - 373 p.

Adviser: Thomas Burger.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2007.

Each year hundreds of thousands of people come to Memphis, Tennessee to visit the home of a dead musician---Elvis Presley. This dissertation argues the contention that Elvis Presley has become a religious figure, and that the collection of fans at Graceland during Elvis Memorial Week are there in the seemingly bizarre creation of an emergent religion. I am arguing that Elvis, and his influence, are instead derived from charisma. The theoretical background for this argument comes from Max Weber's theoretical framework, in which he argues that charisma is not a homogeneous experience. To demonstrate Elvis's claim to charisma, both he, and a site at which fans congregate to commemorate him, are compared to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader in the mold of Weber's charismatic culture hero, and a site at which people also congregate in his memory. The primary evidence for charisma as a basis for Elvis's influence comes from the demonstration of pilgrimage to each of these sites, as pilgrimage is evidence of an extraordinary experience, and it is Weber's contention that such an experience is evidence of charismatic influence. Interviews were conducted at the National Civil Rights Museum to ascertain the nature of the experience there, travel to the site, and the influence of Martin Luther King. Responses were compared to similar interviews at Graceland. Significant similarities were found between this experience and travel to Graceland, substantiating the proposal that Elvis's fans are responding to charisma, not religion. The assumption of a maligned form of cultural capital obscures the idea that the varieties of charisma Weber describes can include "unserious" forms as well as serious.

ISBN: 9780549034797Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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