Emerging Christianity and Religious Identity

The issue of religious identity is important for understanding the Emerging Church movement (ECM), which is in our view a religious orientation adopted by individuals and groups with a variety of religious identities. ECM participants are often resistant to religious identity labels, even to the poi...

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Autres titres:Forum on the Emerging Church Movent: What it is and Why it Matters
Auteurs: Moody, Katharine (Auteur) ; Reed, Randall (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
Dans: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Année: 2017, Volume: 56, Numéro: 1, Pages: 33-40
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Église émergente / Identité religieuse
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AG Vie religieuse
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
KDH Sectes d’origine chrétienne
Sujets non-standardisés:B Identity Theory
B Millennials
B Religious Identity
B Emerging Church Movement
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Résumé:The issue of religious identity is important for understanding the Emerging Church movement (ECM), which is in our view a religious orientation adopted by individuals and groups with a variety of religious identities. ECM participants are often resistant to religious identity labels, even to the point of being reluctant to identify as part of the ECM itself. Coupling this resistance with the growing millennial embrace of the category “religious none,” we use identity theory to argue that the kind of religious change we see with millennials and the Emerging Church is the product of identity change. Using the results of focus groups with millennials in the southern United States, we argue that the potential for religious change around Emerging Church identities lies in a process of shifting. We also identify the potential for religious change among different Emerging Christian identities, taking Peter Rollins as an example of someone who proposes a concept of Christian identity more radical than those espoused by other Emerging Church figures.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12327