The Role of Church Assemblies in Building a Civil Society: The Case of the United Methodist General Conference's Debate on Homosexuality
This paper argues that church assemblies, as examples of “private legislatures,” help to build a civil society by modeling civility in discourse on controversial societal issues and by devising concrete means for effecting the resolution of those issues. We examine the UMC General Conference's...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1995
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1995, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-136 |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that church assemblies, as examples of “private legislatures,” help to build a civil society by modeling civility in discourse on controversial societal issues and by devising concrete means for effecting the resolution of those issues. We examine the UMC General Conference's debate on homosexuality and the products of that debate. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711759 |