“We just want to sing”: how a small London evangelical church responded to Covid-19

This article documents the myriad ways in which a north London evangelical church responded to Covid-19 when it was decanted from its church building into cyberspace. By focusing on three aspects of Hovland’s framework of place-making—materiality, personhood, and transcendence (Hovland 2016), I anal...

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Autor principal: Lee, Siew-Peng (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Verificar disponibilidade: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado em: 2024
Em: Journal of contemporary religion
Ano: 2024, Volume: 39, Número: 3, Páginas: 517-536
Outras palavras-chave:B Ethnography
B Silence
B Singing
B Covid-19
B place-making
B non-charismatic
B Evangelical
B stillness
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Resumo:This article documents the myriad ways in which a north London evangelical church responded to Covid-19 when it was decanted from its church building into cyberspace. By focusing on three aspects of Hovland’s framework of place-making—materiality, personhood, and transcendence (Hovland 2016), I analyse how church members viewed their experience of attending an online church. Apart from contributing to the literature on non-charismatic, non-Pentecostal evangelicalism, it suggests that the importance of singing together, as well as the silence and bodily stillness that sometimes ensue, in the everyday life of a church deserves further attention in a comparative anthropology of Christianity.
ISSN:1469-9419
Obras secundárias:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2024.2374175