From Church to Sect: West Indian Religious Sect Development in Britain

Hill, Clifford

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“…These churches adhere to a theology and style of worship that appears to unnerve the mainstream faiths. However this resonates with previous periods of black migration to Britain when black Christian Caribbeans found themselves cold-shouldered by the relatively austere and unwelcoming white Christian churches (Beckford, 1998;Hill, 1971;Hunt, 2001). This is a reflection of deeper social hostility which may be a factor, as some commentators suggest, in the excess of mental illness reported among African-Caribbean communities in Britain (Harrison, Owens, & Holton, 1988;King, Coker, Leavey, Hoar, & Johnstone-Sabine, 1994;Sharpley, Hutchinson, Murray, & McKenzie, 2001).…”

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The Appreciation of the Spiritual in Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Beliefs Among Clergy in the UK

Leavey

2010

Transcult Psychiatry

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Clergy in the UK continue to provide health and social care services. However, collaboration between mental health services and clergy may be problematic, particularly in the resolution of conflicting beliefs and therapeutic modalities. For example, belief in demonic possession and other supernatural causes of mental illness, which are contentious among secular medical practitioners, remain prevalent in many ethnoreligious communities. Thus, interpretations of illness by clergy within health systems may be crucial to appropriate intervention for people with mental illness. However, clergy conceptualizations of suffering also reveal something about the secularization within religious institutions through the despiritualization of particular phenomena. This paper on Christian clergy beliefs and attitudes to supernatural explanations, describes how the negotiation of such beliefs are complex and often equivocal among mainstream clergy but integral to the Pentecostal churches and evangelical clergy in the mainstream, institutional churches. These beliefs and their implications for collaboration with psychiatry are discussed in the context of a rapidly changing religious and cultural landscape.

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The Appreciation of the Spiritual in Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Beliefs Among Clergy in the UK

Leavey

2010

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“…While Pentecostal churches are a growth sector in the UK, mainstream churches seem to be in decline (Brierly, 2000;Martin, 2002). Some of the reasons for Pentecostalism's success are rooted in its ability to attract the new migrants from Africa and Afro-Caribbean Christians disaffected from the mainstream through more culturally connected beliefs and styles of worship, friendship groups, and dynamic outreach support systems (Hill, 1971;Toulis, 1997). For recent arrivals too, given the large migrant population associated with the Pentecostal churches, the small group must be a source of welcoming support, a relief from isolation, a family to belong to, offering acceptance, commonality and affirmation of identity.…”

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U.K. Clergy and People in Mental Distress: Community and Patterns of Pastoral Care

Leavey

2008

Transcult Psychiatry

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Despite the advance of secularizing influences in many western societies, religion and faith-based organizations play a significant role in the lives of many individuals and communities. Despite this, little is known about what clergy do when faced with mental health problems among their communities. Based on an analysis of in-depth interviews with U.K. Christian, Muslim and Jewish clergy this article examines models of pastoral care provided within different faith groups. The provision of such care was generally influenced by religious tradition and beliefs, community integrity and mission. Implications of the findings for collaboration with pastoral care are discussed.

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“…To the extent that blacks face fewer opportunities in mainstream society, we would rationally expect a higher proportion to choose sect membership. And, indeed, such racial connections have been documented (Argyle and Beit‐Hallahmi 1975), including a particularly interesting study reviewing West Indian immigrants to Great Britain (Hill 1971). This study found that they commonly switched from more open church membership in their home country to exclusivistic Pentecostal sects after emigrating, hinting that relative secular opportunities, rather than any inherent racial differences, drive such affiliations.…”

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The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers

James

Sharpe

2007

American J Econ Sociol

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An examination of the charitable giving behavior of 16,442 households reveals intriguing patterns consistent with the clubtheoretic approach to religious sect affiliation. The club-theoretic model suggests that individuals with lower socioeconomic standing will rationally be more likely to align themselves with exclusivistic sects. Because sect affiliation is also associated with more obligatory religious contributions, this approach generates novel predictions not anticipated by standard economic models of charitable behavior. Traditional analysis of charitable giving can mask the "sect effect" phenomenon, as low-income giving is dwarfed by the giving of the wealthy. However, the application of a two-stage econometric model-separating the participation decision from the subsequent decision regarding the level of gifting-provides unique insights. Basic socioeconomic factors have significant and opposite associations with different categories of giving, calling into question the treatment of charitable giving as a homogenous activity and supporting the understanding of sect affiliation, and potentially religious extremism, as rational choice phenomena.The study of charitable giving, and in particular the religious component of charitable giving, holds the promise of generating significant insights when both economic and sociological perspectives are employed. Religious charitable giving is by far the largest and most

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From Church to Sect: West Indian Religious Sect Development in Britain

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

The Appreciation of the Spiritual in Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Beliefs Among Clergy in the UK

The Appreciation of the Spiritual in Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Beliefs Among Clergy in the UK

U.K. Clergy and People in Mental Distress: Community and Patterns of Pastoral Care

The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers

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