New Concepts for New Dynamics: Generating Theory for the Study of Religious Innovation and Social Change
The Emerging Church movement (ECM) is sociologically interestingnot due to the size of its membership or the centrality of its congregations. Rather, the ECM is significant because it provides an opportunity to generate new concepts for the study religious innovation and social change. Using theore...
| Outros títulos: | Forum on the Emerging Church Movent: What it is and Why it Matters |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Ano: 2017, Volume: 56, Número: 1, Páginas: 6-18 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Igreja emergente
/ Sociologia da religião
/ Mudança social
/ Ciências da religião
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AA Ciências da religião AD Sociologia da religião KHD Outras Igrejas |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
organizational analysis
B Theory B Institutional logics B Emerging Church Movement B religious institutional entrepreneurship |
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| Resumo: | The Emerging Church movement (ECM) is sociologically interestingnot due to the size of its membership or the centrality of its congregations. Rather, the ECM is significant because it provides an opportunity to generate new concepts for the study religious innovation and social change. Using theoretical language, the ECM consists of institutional entrepreneurs who drive their religiously concerned movement by continually deconstructing and reframing beliefs, practices, and identities from mainstream Christianity while at the same time promoting newly formulated and broadly resonant religious imperatives. As Emerging Christians cultivate new or altered religious practices, these must be continually legitimized. Furthermore, their renegotiated beliefs (heterodoxies) require new forms of organization (alternative congregations). Such action is not the work of isolated individuals, nor is it independent of societal conditions. Ultimately, the ECM consists of Emerging Christians who creatively operate through diffuse network structures across wide geographic spaces and among disparate social groups to enact a collective institutional entrepreneurship that seeks to reimagine the assumptions of conventional Christian congregational life. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12325 |