RT Article
T1 Conflicting Identities: An Ethnographic Account of Conflict and Schism in an Episcopal Parish
JF Ecclesial practices
VO 3
IS 2
SP 210
OP 230
A1 Mercer, Joyce Ann
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1561950718
AB This paper draws upon a congregational study of an Episcopal parish in the United States in conflict over sexuality issues. Based on ethnographic research, the paper tells the story of a small Northern Virginia church’s internal struggles, schism, and continuing post-schism conflicts, in the context of its changing external social and religious landscape. A practical theological analysis of these conflicts explores the existence of different theological and political ecclesiologies shaping the conflict, as well as utilizing the work of peace scholars Marie Dugan1 and John Paul Lederach2 to consider conflict’s multidimensional, interacting features.
K1 church conflict : schism : church and sexuality : Episcopal Church, conflict in : congregational studies
DO 10.1163/22144471-00302006