Reciprocity‐Based Moral Sanctions and Messianic Salvation1
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 74 (3) , 391-407
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00110
Abstract
The twofold theoretical assumption is developed that accumulation of social debt or credit in reciprocal transaction generates moral sanctions; and that guilt and indignation, thus generated, comprise resources which can be mobilized under charismatic intervention to bring about a sense of salvation. Four types of manipulation of these sanctions are identified: reciprocation, reversal, neutralization, and moralization. Empirical illustration is drawn from a study of a messianic sect, of Japanese origin, in Hawaii.Keywords
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