Emerging Christianity and Religious Identity

Moody, Katharine Sarah; Reed, Randall

doi:10.1111/jssr.12327

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“…External impulses driving them to leave the church included irritation with positions that the church has taken (Niemela¨2017). Past research has also found that unchurched and dechurched millennials consider the churches judgmental, hypocritical, and homophobic; shallow, consumerist, and individualistic; and exclusivist and intolerant (Moody and Reed 2017). Barna and Kinnaman (2014) have described dechurched Christians as exiles and prodigals on a journey of dropping out of church who may return to the church community in the future.…”

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“…External impulses driving them to leave the church included irritation with positions that the church has taken (Niemelä 2017). Past research has also found that unchurched and dechurched millennials consider the churches judgmental, hypocritical, and homophobic; shallow, consumerist, and individualistic; and exclusivist and intolerant (Moody and Reed 2017).…”

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Believing and Wanting to Belong: A Mixed-Methods Study of Dechurched Christians in Hong Kong

Hui,

Chan

2023

Review of Religious Research

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Dechurched Christians are believers who regularly attended church but later left church and maintained their Christian faith. Reasons for dechurching provide important learnings for the wider Christian community. This is a mixed method study that began with a quantitative survey that looked into the reasons for going to and leaving church. Quantitative results found that most Christian respondents go to church “to be closer to God.” Top reasons for dechurching are disappointment in church culture and not liking the way a church handles certain matters. In the subsequent qualitative study, 17 dechurched Christians were interviewed and results found that an additional reason for leaving was feeling that churches were out of touch. Interviewees shared that their best memories from church were when they experienced life together with brothers and sisters and learnt from in-depth sermon messages. Most respondents shared that they still maintained close relationship with God, hope to go back to church, and long to experience love and belong to spiritual companionship and experience presence of God. This study illustrates the importance of staying connected with dechurched Christians, and room for faith communities and fresh expression of churches to provide spiritual home for dechurched to belong.

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Believing and Wanting to Belong: A Mixed-Methods Study of Dechurched Christians in Hong Kong

Hui,

Chan

2023

Review of Religious Research

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Finding their way: young adults, Progressive Christianity and social work

Ball

Crisp

2021

Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social T

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Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope

Shoemaker

2019

Religions

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This article, based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, explores three types of on-the-ground rehabilitative hope supplied by sport for many post-evangelicals within the upper Bible Belt region traversing through the process of deconversion. First, sport is an often-cited space that is identified as broadening social networks, leading to initial questioning of inherited religiosity. Second, sport offers a level of amelioration of relational fissures caused by religious shifts away from evangelicalism. Last, this research indicates that post-evangelicals highly value spaces for discussions of social justice, and athletic activism offers symbolic solidarity. Thus, sport and deconversion can be intertwined for Southern post-evangelicals. In the end, I argue that the triangulation of deconversion, hope, and sport within a Southern context creates a way of understanding the changing Southern ethos and pathos demarcated by a shifting away from a conservative Protestantism historically dominant in the region.

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Emerging Christianity and Religious Identity

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Believing and Wanting to Belong: A Mixed-Methods Study of Dechurched Christians in Hong Kong

Believing and Wanting to Belong: A Mixed-Methods Study of Dechurched Christians in Hong Kong

Finding their way: young adults, Progressive Christianity and social work

Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope

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