...these ideas.25 Weber believed, just as Sohm, that the charismatic event was a transitory one: Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...rationality to a slow death by suffocation under the 85 weight of material interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to this end.26 We begin...

...what Max Weber termed the routinization of charismatic movements.53 In his dramatic phrasing, "every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...death by suffocation under the weight of material interests."54 The similarity between what I have termed organizational corruption and routinization...

...might have been describing what happened after the communist victory in China when he wrote: "Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to this end." 54 What posed the greatest threat to Mao personally was the depersonalization of charisma....

...was more widely known. XI Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa Introduction Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to this end. —Max Weber1 THIS BOOK CONCERNS three crises in the history of a West African Muslim movement....

...the long-term economic interests of its foflowers, charismatic domination inevitably perishes. "Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...that knows no economic rationality to a slow death by suflocation under the weight of material interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to...

...devotees and followers, and the will of an individual prophet, it is inherently precarious: "Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to its end."17 All charisma, in the end, goes through a process of "routinization." For example, the formation...

...charisma," Weber writes in Economy and Society, "is on the road from a turbulently emotional life, which knows no economic rationality, to a slow death by...suffocation under the weight of material interests; and every hour of its existence brings it nearer to this end."38 Some of the followers of the charismatic...

...ordinary; its leadership becomes routinized, depersonalized, and deradicalized. Thus Weber writes: "Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer its end," Charisma may be attached to an office, that is the gift of grace becomes attached to whomever...

...with younger ones, in the end it merely leads to a new version of the traditionalism of power: "Every charisma is on the road from a turbulently emotional...interests: every hour of its existence brings it nearer to this end."9 Is it possible to summarize the story of Christianity as originally a dissident movement...