By Kimmo Ketola
The Hare Krishna stream is without doubt one of the so much famous new spiritual events within the Western societies. It was once based in big apple in 1966 via the Indian monk A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda (1896-1977).
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The field did not emerge from a complete void, however. Already in 1975 the French anthropologist Dan Sperber had published his book Rethinking Symbolism, which to a large extent laid the foundations for a cognitive approach to cultural systems and influenced both Boyer’s and Lawson and McCauley’s work. Guthrie had also already published an article already in 1980 in which he proposed a cognitive approach to religion and that our biological intuitions could be used to explain animism and anthropomorphism.
The leader who becomes charismatic is the one who can inadvertently or deliberately tap the reservoir of relevant myths in his culture and who knows how to draw upon those myths that are linked to its sacred figures, to its historical and legendary heroes, and to its historical and legendary ordeals and triumphs. He evokes, invokes, and assimilates to himself the values and actions embodied in the myths by which that society has organized and recalls its past experience. , 62) We are left with the impression that charisma can only be generated if the leader and the followers share the same cultural heritage.
One of the repertoires he singles out for extended treatment is the ‘social category repertoire’, which is a catalogue of representations about differences between people. This is a general category of representations that includes not only people’s representations concerning their religious specialists but also of other distinctions between social actors. In his discussion, however, Boyer focuses exclusively on stable, named religious categories such as priests, shamans, diviners and the like.