Straining at the Tie That Binds: Congregational Conflict in the 1980s
Studies of intrachurch conflict have emphasized such variant explanations as liberal/conservative divisions, external pressures that exacerbate internal cleavages, clergy/laity differences, and demographic changes as the cause(s) of church conflict. Most rely on either survey data or single-case eth...
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| Language: | English |
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1993
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Review of religious research
Year: 1993, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 193-209 |
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| Summary: | Studies of intrachurch conflict have emphasized such variant explanations as liberal/conservative divisions, external pressures that exacerbate internal cleavages, clergy/laity differences, and demographic changes as the cause(s) of church conflict. Most rely on either survey data or single-case ethnographic data. We present a review and critique of these studies and argue for analyzing comparative conflict events as a way to find out which causes operate in specific circumstances. An analysis of conflict events in the churches in a midwestern urban community indicates that none of the perspectives found in the literature was predominant. Instead, we propose that some of the implications of the "new voluntarism" enlighten our understanding of intra-congregational conflict. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3700594 |