De-centring social capital: exploring the implications of empirical research for conceptualising Christian faith-based social engagement

Dunlop, Sarah; Buckingham, Heather

doi:10.1080/13537903.2019.1585126

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“…Lockhart (2005) adds to this by pointing out the way that faith‐based programs seek to establish long‐term ties—relationships—between congregation members and people who are long term unemployed to create the bridging social capital that can be tapped into as a resource to access the labor market. More recently, Dunlop and Buckingham (2019) present a similar account from research with megachurches in London. They found that church leaders tried to form relationships with disadvantaged people in congregations “as part of the solution to whatever issue is at stake, whether it is homelessness, addiction, eating disorder” (Dunlop and Buckingham 2019:146–47).…”

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“…More recently, Dunlop and Buckingham (2019) present a similar account from research with megachurches in London. They found that church leaders tried to form relationships with disadvantaged people in congregations “as part of the solution to whatever issue is at stake, whether it is homelessness, addiction, eating disorder” (Dunlop and Buckingham 2019:146–47). Church leaders believed that the state was required to provide resources such as accommodation to people who are homeless, but churches were able to help the homeless spiritually by providing “stable relationships” (p. 144).…”

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Christianity, Helping People in Poverty, and Embodied Relationships

Parsell,

Stambe

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article demonstrates that people animated by Christianity draw on faith to help people in poverty through building relationships. Contrasting with the literature that presents relationships as a means to change people, including through evangelizing, we find that relationships are conceived as an end in and of themselves. Drawing on an Australian ethnographic study with pastors and volunteers in church‐based community centers and people living in poverty, we illustrate how the realities of poverty subvert relationships. People in poverty prioritize their material needs. The challenges developing relationships notwithstanding, the article argues that elements of relationships found in this research represent an opportunity to advance knowledge of what it means to draw on faith to help people in poverty. Relationships can be a vehicle to change oppressive systems, but the capacity to do so must be assessed in the contexts of religion's position in dominant political and power structures.

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Christianity, Helping People in Poverty, and Embodied Relationships

Parsell,

Stambe

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field

Bauman

2022

Journal of World Christianity

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Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The number of texts produced on megachurches since 2010 is nearly triple the number produced before that date, and many of the newest texts decenter North America. Megachurch studies today, therefore, is a properly international and cosmopolitan field. The article has four interrelated aims: (1) to provide a thorough overview of major themes and work in megachurch studies, with special emphasis on works emerging in the last decade; (2) to update two excellent state-of-the-field reviews by Stephen Ellingson (in 2008 and 2010); (3) to make visible the now thoroughly global nature of the field by attending fully to its international focus, something done only briefly and tentatively in Ellingson’s reviews; and (4) to develop (in the ample footnotes) something of thorough bibliography of key texts in the field of megachurch studies.

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De-centring social capital: exploring the implications of empirical research for conceptualising Christian faith-based social engagement

Cited by 2 publications

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Christianity, Helping People in Poverty, and Embodied Relationships

Christianity, Helping People in Poverty, and Embodied Relationships

Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field

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