ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces central dimensions of Charismatic prophecy—love, belief, power—through a discussion of two important authors who explore new ways to approach religious experience and its ontology, Bruno Latour and Tanya Luhrmann. It describes how recognized prophets present the supernatural visions they claim to have received about God's plans for Switzerland or the United States of America. Luhrmann's statement is probably broad sweeping when she depicts people as if they were concerned by the Evangelicals' beliefs per se, and not by their consequences for a pluralist society. Charismatic Evangelicals are particularly fond of his royal authority—a prerogative that can subvert the grammar and the institutions of a liberal, secular and pluralist democracy. The discussion of Latour and Luhrmann helped problematize how Evangelicals hear God publicly addressing them through prophecy. Prophecy eclipses inquiry and reasoned debate as the rationale for understanding political life.
