The Holy Spirit as Conscience Collective.
From: Sociology of Religion
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Date: 12/22/1999
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Author: Lawson, Matthew P.
Matthew P. Lawson [*]
Catholic Charismatics often talk about "God," "Jesus," "the Holy Spirit," or simply "the Lord" as an active partner in interaction. Most sociologists regard such statements as outside the epistemological purview of an empirical discipline; God is relegated to the inaccessible domain of the "specifically religious." In this paper I suggest that "the Holy Spirit" is a manifestation of a learnable pattern of social interaction that may generate a ...
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