Church Generation: A Neglected Research Issue
All those individuals who experience an event or set of events at a similar point in time constitute a generation. Intergenerational differences and similarities result from the “fresh contact” of each succeeding generation with the accumulating cultural heritage of a society. At least two types of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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1977
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1977, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 258-265 |
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Summary: | All those individuals who experience an event or set of events at a similar point in time constitute a generation. Intergenerational differences and similarities result from the “fresh contact” of each succeeding generation with the accumulating cultural heritage of a society. At least two types of generational cleavage are significant at the level of the local church: (1) those that are created by differences in chronological age, and (2) those that are created by differences in the length of time that members have been affiliated with a particular church. A survey study of a single congregation is used to identify correlates of both types of generational cleavage, particularly church generation cleavage. |
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ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709806 |