Religious Authority in Evangelical, Charismatic, and Pentecostal Christianities: Reflections about Concepts, Methods, and the Role of Non-human Agency in Authority Relations

In this article, I reflect upon the articles of this special issue in selected respects. My intention is to draw together some of the recurring themes and critical threads with the goal to develop a broader framework for future discussions of authority in Evangelical, Charismatic, and Pentecostal mo...

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Main Author: Radermacher, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Pages: 616-633
Further subjects:B History of religion studies
B Religious sociology
B Social sciences
B Religionspsycholigie
B Religionswissenschaften
B Religion & Gesellschaft
B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft
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Summary:In this article, I reflect upon the articles of this special issue in selected respects. My intention is to draw together some of the recurring themes and critical threads with the goal to develop a broader framework for future discussions of authority in Evangelical, Charismatic, and Pentecostal movements. In a manner of responding to the contributions and to our collaborative endeavor in general, I focus on three aspects: First, I discuss the concept of "religious authority," second, I attend to the question of how to study religious authority empirically (methods of data collection and data analysis), and, third, I consider if and how approaches from post-humanistic literature, especially Niklas Luhmann’s and Bruno Latour’s works, could be valuable additions to classical sociological literature on authority in religious contexts. Far from offering a "conclusion" in the strict sense, this contribution shall raise new questions and spark future debate on the topic of this special issue.
Contains:Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004505315_030