Emergent Church Practices in America: Inclusion and Deliberation in American Congregations
In the last 15 years a small but growing movement organized under the label emergent church has begun to help push the church through what many of them believe to be the first careful steps that will usher in a new understanding of Christianity for the twenty-first century. An emergent church mode...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
[2015]
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Congregation
/ Religious sociology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Deliberation
B Missional B Emergent church B Emergent church movement B Congregation |
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| Summary: | In the last 15 years a small but growing movement organized under the label emergent church has begun to help push the church through what many of them believe to be the first careful steps that will usher in a new understanding of Christianity for the twenty-first century. An emergent church model is quite a radical one that prioritizes the agency of those in attendance to determine the beliefs and direction of the church. In this way, emergent churches, at least in theory, are radical deliberative democrats in orientation, which may have profound effects on how the church is run and how members view the church, each other, and society as a result. Using the first dataset known to acquire this identity of Protestant clergy, we assess whether emergent Christian clergy adhere to a different set of religious beliefs, values, and deliberative norms than those in the modern church. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-014-0157-2 |