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...
| Nebentitel: | Forum on the Emerging Church Movent: What it is and Why it Matters |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 56, Heft: 1, Seiten: 6-18 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Emerging Church
/ Religionssoziologie
/ Sozialer Wandel
/ Religionswissenschaft
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AA Religionswissenschaft AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KDH Christliche Sondergemeinschaften |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
organizational analysis
B Theory B Institutional logics B Emerging Church Movement B religious institutional entrepreneurship |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12325 |