TY - BOOK ID - 8968542 TI - A history of charisma. PY - 2009 SN - 9780230551534 023055153X 1349362425 9786612671838 0230244831 1282671839 PB - Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Charisma (Personality trait) KW - Pentecostalism KW - English language KW - Charisma KW - History. KW - Etymology. KW - Word formation. KW - Charisma. KW - Appeal, Personal KW - Magnetism, Personal KW - Personal appeal KW - Personal magnetism KW - Personality KW - History KW - Etymology KW - Word formation KW - Morphology KW - Word history KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8968542 AB - This text traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in 21st century politics and culture, while considering how much of the word's original religious meaning persists in the contemporary secular understanding. ER -