The Question of Cultural Change in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Notes from the Emerging Church
This article explores how anthropological models of cultural change bolster the social scientific study of the Emerging Church movement. A distinction is drawn between market-oriented approaches to change that measure institutional growth and decline and cultural-oriented approaches that address bro...
| Subtitles: | Forum on the Emerging Church Movent: What it is and Why it Matters |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Congregation
/ Cultural change
/ Religious sociology
/ Religious change
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultural Change
B Anthropology B Congregation |
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| Summary: | This article explores how anthropological models of cultural change bolster the social scientific study of the Emerging Church movement. A distinction is drawn between market-oriented approaches to change that measure institutional growth and decline and cultural-oriented approaches that address broader effects on sociocultural systems. Emphasis is placed on models that emphasize change occurring internal to cultural systems and that recognize the co-occurrence of cultural durability and transformation. This theoretical exploration is grounded in more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Emerging evangelical communities in the midwestern United States. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12323 |