Denominations, Congregations, and Special Purpose Groups

Ammerman, Nancy T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31395-5_8

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“…Within meso-level approaches to studying religiosity, there are two main focus areas: (i) Religious denominations and (ii) religious congregations. These two forms of religious organizations are notably distinct from a third type: Faith-based organizations, or special-purpose groups that involve religion in varying degrees (Ammerman 2016;Fulton 2020). Faith-based organizations are reviewed in a subsequent section.…”

Section: Religious Organizationsmentioning

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“…Rather, studying religious organizations is best understood as composed of three categories for units of analysis: Denominations, congregations, and special purpose groups (Ammerman 2016), which are also referred to as faith-based organizations.…”

Section: Denominationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With this definition, there is a substantial subfield in the study of religiosity that focuses on congregations (Nieman 2002). Congregational studies expanded in the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s (Ammerman et al 1998;Ammerman 2016). Then, in the 2010s, critiques arose of the prevalence of congregation studies.…”

Section: Congregationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

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This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected publications, are dominated by Western approaches, particular attention is paid in this analysis to publications from geographies that are not from the United States or Western Europe, especially these world regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Similarly, while the study of religiosity is considerably centered around Christianity, this analysis extends beyond Christianity, to the extent possible in extant studies, to include publications investigating other world religious traditions, such as African spirituality, African witchcraft, Afro-Caribbean religious traditions, Buddhism, Confucianism, folk religions, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Neo-paganism, New Religious Movements (NRMs), Shamanism, Sikhism, Spiritism, Taoism, and spirituality generally. A total of 530 publications were reviewed, and the studies are categorized by unit of analysis into: Macro, micro, and meso-level. Measurement constructs include religious demography, culture, belonging, behaving, believing, bonding, religious salience, spiritual identities, religious networks, occupations, congregations, denominations, and faith-based organizations. Non-Western sources and approaches are analyzed toward furthering future research in under-studied world regions. Implications are drawn for the field, such as the need to geo-code publications at the country level.

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Section: Denominationsmentioning

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“…For instance, a simple Google Scholar search using the term "clergy" yields over 640,000 results and over 120,000 results when congregation is added. Hence, there is ample literature about clergy and their congregations (Ammerman, 2016;Chaves & Eagle, 2016;Itzhaki & Cnaan, 2019). Despite the common knowledge of clergy not working alone, literature rarely highlights the members who work closely with clergy and propel the congregation's organizational management.…”

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Personality, Prosperity, Priority, Productivity, and Piety: Selecting Congregational Valued Lay Leaders

Cnaan,

Scott

2021

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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Religious congregations are community hubs of welfare and health services. They are known mostly for their spiritual and faith-based activities while being the largest providers of social care with the exception of social welfare services. Their leaders, the clergy, do not work alone. Members that work alongside clergy are essential for the congregation’s functioning but are under-researched, which limits our understanding of the inner workings of local religious congregations. In this exploratory study, we surveyed clergy to assess the characteristics possessed by their most trusted congregants—the valued members. This study helps to better understand the organizational behavior and an overall understanding of congregational members, who work most closely with clergy. We used an online survey of clergy across religious traditions within the United States (N=202), who provided personal data and described their valued members’ collective characteristics. Alongside our conceptual literature review, the findings identified five key groups: Personality, Prosperity, Priority, Productivity, and Piety. Overall, the valued members ranked highest were high on productivity and lowest on prosperity. We also found differences between clergy ranking based on their age, gender, and religion.

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Das kollektive Ritual als Performance? Die Herstellung von religiöser „Authentizität“ in der differenzierten Gesellschaft

Pruisken

Loebell

2021

Z Religion Ges Polit

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ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag greift Jeffrey Alexanders (2004) These auf, dass die einzelnen Komponenten kollektiver Rituale in der modernen Gesellschaft zwar zunehmend differenziert und somit religiös „entleert“ werden, in der Inszenierung aber „re-fusioniert“ werden können. Das Religiöse wird somit subjektiviert, mediatisiert und eventisiert. Rationalisierungsprozesse wie Organisations- und Marktbildung sowie Digitalisierung treiben diese Entwicklung voran. Im empirischen Teil vergleichen wir drei kollektive Rituale aus dem amerikanischen Evangelikalismus, die unterschiedliche Grade der Differenzierung aufweisen: Im Fall der (1) traditionellen Gemeinde wird religiöse Authentizität aus den engen sozialen Beziehungen innerhalb der Gemeinde und zur Denomination erzeugt. (2) Im Megakirchengottesdienst der Lakewood Church wird Authentizität in der professionellen Event-Inszenierung hergestellt. (3) Die evangelikale Vloggerin hingegen erzeugt Authentizität – und damit eine Bindung an ihr Publikum –, indem Skript und Darstellerin in der Inszenierung vollständig verschmelzen.

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Denominations, Congregations, and Special Purpose Groups

Cited by 4 publications

References 98 publications

Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

Personality, Prosperity, Priority, Productivity, and Piety: Selecting Congregational Valued Lay Leaders

Das kollektive Ritual als Performance? Die Herstellung von religiöser „Authentizität“ in der differenzierten Gesellschaft

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