ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents an approach called phenomenography that aims at acknowledging and analyzing the continuity and singularity of the human being. It points out, projects are defined by at least three features, as they constitute temporary, anticipatory and hybrid modes of (dis-)organizing. The book provides the circulation and transformation of the Authority figure, from its emergence in the Republic of Letters in the late 17th and 18th centuries to its recognition as a supreme governmental authority during the French Revolution of 1789. It analyzes how Evangelicals claim to hear God talking to them, especially in the context of prophecies and glossolalia. The book shows that organizational ethnography requires that researchers be affected, consumed or haunted by their data collection, whether through specific sensations, recollections or intuitions.
