Friday, November 26, 2pm-4pm: Tom Wright (University of Sussex/LARCA UMR 8225) ‘Orenda and the Indigenous Roots of Charisma’
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Where does ‘charisma’ really come from? In the century since Max Weber’s adoption of the word, it has become an indispensable crutch for scholarly and popular thinking about authority. Yet despite the growing interdisciplinary literature on the concept, its history remains poorly understood and its debts to global intellectual traditions overlooked. This essay offers one route into this line of thinking by exploring a context that lurks unacknowledged in the background of the theory itself: t...