The Congregation as a Station for Social Integration: an Analysis of Congregants’ Personal Networks with an Interpretation using Giddens’ Theory of Structuration

This is a study of personal networks from a sample of two contrasting congregations in Northern Ireland: one is Anglican (‘A’), historic and rural, the other newly formed, independent and evangelical (‘I.E.’). This research helps to redress the lack of such studies in Britain and Ireland as compared...

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Main Author: Stringer, Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2019
In: Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Pages: 35-58
Further subjects:B Social Network Analysis
B structuration
B Congregations
B Social Structure
B Northern Ireland
B homophily
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