Foundational Social Ritual Practices Of Parish Life

Author : Michael J. McCallion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527579446

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Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life by Michael J. McCallion Pdf

This book highlights for professional parish ministers the vital importance of the foundational or pre-communal aspects that make a parish community healthy and strong. It provides not a sociology of the parish, but a sociology of the first ingredients that go into making a parish community. It is not, therefore, a book explaining or analyzing the organizational dimensions or social structures that make-up a parish, such as the roles and statuses needed for a parish to function. Rather, the book examines the formation of relationships in the first place within the context of a parish and how such relationships might be maintained over time. Upward social mobility is a deterrent to forming such relationships, while social ritual practices, such as eating together, are a means for establishing and sustaining parish relationships. The book is theoretically grounded in the work of Emile Durkheim who discusses in minute detail the ingredients of social solidarity and community life in his classic work The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Author : Christian Batalden Scharen
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0814661939

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Public Worship and Public Work by Christian Batalden Scharen Pdf

Description: In a time of increasing cultural pluralism and vast religious restructuring in the United States, Christian social ethics must take account of how values and commitments shape Christian communities. In Public Worship and Public Work Christian Scharen examines theological claims about the relationship of worship and ethics by means of ethnographic study of the life, worship, and work of three vibrant congregations. Public Worship and Public Work moves beyond two caricatures of the relationship between worship and social ethics. Rather than resolute portrayals of the Church as a reflection of its culture and context and causal accounts of the Church's liturgy forming a Christian witness over and against culture, this book lifts up congregational identity as an area of dynamic interaction between worship, social ethics, and culture. Chapters in Part One are "Liturgy and Social Ethics: Characterizing a Debate," and "Sociologizing the Debate: Identity, Ritual, and Public Commitment." Chapters in Part Two: Three Case Studies in Atlanta's Old Downtown are "'People Living Church': The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception," "'Jesus Saves': Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, '" and "'The Church at Work': Central Presbyterian Church.'" Part Three concludes with "The World in the Church in the World."

Author : Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Christian A. Eberhart,Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000921656

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Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises by Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Christian A. Eberhart,Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Pdf

Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of different religions and cultures to the current SARS-2-COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises in the past. The contributions are organized in three thematic parts focusing on strategies, rituals, and past and present responses to pandemics and crises. They reflect on the intersection of personal or communal responses and state-mandated policies relative to SARS-2-COVID-19 while outlining different strategies to cope with the pandemic crisis. Timely questions explored include: How do individuals connect with or disconnect from religious and spiritual communities during times of personal and collective crises, including pandemics? How do religious practices such as rituals bridge individuals and communities? How do religious texts from past and present highlight and represent crises and pandemics? Dynamic and multidisciplinary in its inquiry, this volume is an outstanding resource for scholars of religion, theology, anthropology, social sciences, ritual theory, sex and gender studies, and contemporary medical science.

Author : Terry A. Veling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592440917

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Living in the Margins by Terry A. Veling Pdf

A gifted theologian sheds light on the meaning and value of intentional faith communities in the margins of parish life.

Author : Lucy Moffat Kaufman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228017752

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A People’s Reformation by Lucy Moffat Kaufman Pdf

The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of England that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion, and would eventually launch new wars, new language, and even a new national identity. A People’s Reformation offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival material from across the United States and Britain, Lucy Kaufman examines the growing influence of state authority and the slow building of a robust state church from the bottom up in post-Reformation England. Situating the people of England at the heart of this story, the book argues that while the Reformation shaped everyday lives, it was also profoundly shaped by them in turn. England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people but through their active social, political, and religious participation in creating a new church in England. A People’s Reformation explores this world from the pews, reimagining the lived experience and fierce negotiation of church and state in the parishes of Elizabethan England. It places ordinary people at the centre of the local, cultural, and political history of the Reformation and its remarkable, transformative effect on the world.

Author : E. Leslie Williams
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0761834168

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Spirit Tree by E. Leslie Williams Pdf

Despite what some scholarship has suggested, Shintô does exhibit a unifying cognitive integrity. Spirit Tree offers a unique social psychological interpretation of Shintô ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan and situates the cosmological organization of this practice within the larger context of ritual in East Asia. Employing a comparative approach, this study blends two theoretical orientations: cultural anthropology and Jungian psychology. Hakozaki's rituals are a combination of a Yayoi period female medium tradition with a complex set of Chinese Yin-Yang Five Phase principles. Both systems are based on the feminine archetype, a fundamental conceptual foundation of Shintô ritual practice, which cognitively links woman and the earth. While the female shaman tradition is female-affirming in outlook, the later Chinese system is much less so. This monograph is a new acknowledgement of the conceptual continuity of Shintô ritual as an outgrowth of social cognition.

Author : Susan Bigelow Reynolds
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531502027

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People Get Ready by Susan Bigelow Reynolds Pdf

What does it mean to be a community of difference? St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshaped the neighborhood, transforming streets into borderlines and the parish into a waystation. Today, the church sustains a community of Black, Caribbean, Latin American, and Euro-American parishioners from Roxbury and beyond. In People Get Ready, Susan Reynolds draws on six years of ethnographic research to examine embodied ritual as a site of radical solidarity in the local church. Weaving together archived letters, oral histories, stories, photographs, newspaper articles, and newly examined archdiocesan documents, Reynolds traces how the people of St. Mary’s constructed rituals of solidarity as a practical foundation for building bridges across difference. She looks beyond liturgy to unexpected places, from Mass announcements to parish council meetings, from the Good Friday Via Crucis through neighborhood streets to protests staged in and around the church in the wake of Boston’s 2004 parish shutdowns. Through ethnography and Catholic ecclesiology, Reynolds argues for a retrieval of Vatican II’s notion of ecclesial solidarity as a basis for the mission of the local church in an age of migration, displacement, and change. It is through the work of ritual, the story of St. Mary’s reveals, that we learn to negotiate the borders in our midst—to cultivate friendships, exercise power, build peace, and, in a real way, to survive.

Author : C. Dixon,Luise Schorn-Schütte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230518872

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The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe by C. Dixon,Luise Schorn-Schütte Pdf

The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the confessional age. Eight contributions, written by historians with specialist research knowledge in the field, offer the reader a wide-ranging synthesis of the main concerns of current historiography. Themes include the origins and the evolution of the Protestant clergy during the age of Reformation, the role and function of the clergy in the context of early modern history, and the contribution of the clergy to the developments of the age (the making of confessions, education, the reform of culture, social and political thought).

Author : Jeffers Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199332137

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Singing the Right Way by Jeffers Engelhardt Pdf

Engelhardt enters the world of Orthodox Christianity in Estonia to explore the significance of musical style in worship, cultural identity, and social imagination. Through a series of ethnographic and historical chapters, the book focuses on how Orthodox Estonians give voice to the religious absolute in secular society to live Christ-like lives. Approaching Orthodoxy through local understandings of correct practice and correct belief, this work describes how religious knowledge, national identity, and social transformation were articulated in the work of singing not just any way, but the right way.

Author : Mathijs Pelkmans
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1845456173

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Conversion After Socialism by Mathijs Pelkmans Pdf

"The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume's focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. In eight well-researched ethnographic accounts the authors analyse a range of missionary encounters as well as aspects of conversion and 'anti-conversion' in different parts of the region, thus challenging the problematic idea that religious life after socialism involved a simple 'revival' of repressed religious traditions. Instead, they unravel the unexpected twists and turns of religious dynamics, and the processes that have challenged popular ideas about religion and culture. The contributions show how conversion is rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new 'capitalist experience' and document its unsettling effects on the individual and social level." --Book Jacket.

Author : Martin Lindhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450487

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Practicing the Faith by Martin Lindhardt Pdf

Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship. This book examines Pentecostal-charismatic ritual practice in different parts of the world, highlighting, among other things, the crucial role of ritual in creating religious communities and identities.

Author : Will Coster,Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521824877

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Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe by Will Coster,Andrew Spicer Pdf

In this 2005 book, leading historians examine sanctity and sacred space in Europe during and after the religious upheavals of the early modern period.

Author : Rosalind Shaw,Charles Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134833955

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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism by Rosalind Shaw,Charles Stewart Pdf

The contributors explore the issues of agency and power which motivate the conflicting discourses surrounding syncretism, that is the mixing of different religious traditions within a culture.

Author : Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788866551232

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Religion and religious institutions in the European economy, 1000-1800 by Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio Pdf

Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118724095

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

Through a series of essays contributed by leading experts in the field, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology presents an introduction to practical theology as a major area of Christian study and practice, including an overview of its key developments, themes, methods, and future directions. The first comprehensive reference work to provide a survey, description and analysis of practical theology as an area of study A range of leading scholars in the field provide original contributions on the major areas, issues, and figures in practical theology Reviews an extensive range of methods for studying theology in practice, along with sub-disciplines in theological education such as pastoral care and preaching Covers developments in the discipline in a range of global contexts and distinct Christian traditions Shows how practical theology is relevant to everyday life