The Emerging Church in Transatlantic Perspective

Guest, Mathew

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“…To point out the cultural affinities between evangelicalism and late modern capitalism is nothing new, but the enduring resonance of this connection invites questions about how it may have changed over time. Such emulation of global markets and neoliberal norms as exemplified above is also not universal within evangelicalism, and it is important to note developments that affirm a much more critical orientation to neoliberal developments on both sides of the Atlantic (Guest 2017;Marti 2020;Steensland and Goff 2014) The analysis offered above suggests evangelicalism's adoption of neoliberal norms has taken particular directions in recent decades, generating subtle mutations of authority that mirror wider cultural templates for what counts as credible, effective and legitimate. It is a complex adoption that echoes the tendencies of the past, but reacts to very different cultural circumstances, and so ends up with very different results.…”

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From Protestant Ethic to Neoliberal Logic: Evangelicals at the Interface of Culture and Politics

Guest¹

2022

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32

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This article brings Max Weber's argument about the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism into conversation with contemporary accounts of society framed by neoliberalism and traces some implications in terms of emergent patterns of authority. It asks how an alignment between evangelicalism and capitalism has fostered a distinctive cross-fertilisation in recent years, including a re-negotiation of what counts as normative, credible, and successful. It argues that a moralised sense of vocation has been overtaken in some influential circles by an urge to mirror the embodied and broadcast perfections of the entertainment industry, and by the importation of business strategies that instrumentalise capital, influence and media exposure. Drawing on examples from recent Anglo-American evangelical historyinspired in turns by a desire for evangelistic success and political influence -the article examines how this pattern is both rooted in a long-standing tradition of technological engagement while also moving into a phase that foregrounds utilitarian logic in order to maximise evangelical exposure and credibility.

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From Protestant Ethic to Neoliberal Logic: Evangelicals at the Interface of Culture and Politics

Guest¹

2022

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32

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“…Most academics frame it as a rejection of evangelical right-wing fundamentalism and/or consumeristic "megachurch" Christianity (Bielo 2011;Marti and Ganiel 2014). The EMC began amongst young evangelicals in the early 1990s in the US and other Anglophone countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand (Guest 2017). New Zealand had some of the earliest Emerging Churches, such as Cityside in Auckland (Taylor 2019).…”

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“They made space for me”

Rivera

2023

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Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with young, Anglican social justice activists in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article engages with Romand Coles’s theory of receptive generosity, and the theme of the western church as marginal, to explore why a particular Anglican Diocese was attracting new, millennial aged members, most of whom did not grow up Anglican. I consider how spaces of generous reciprocity were formed and enabled through living in intentional communities (ICs) and being able to engage with pluralistic ‘broad table’ spaces of discussion and dissent. These factors were part of what drew the research participants to this Diocese and to Anglicanism in general, as well as enhancing their social justice activism. My research shows the importance of intentionally making spaces of belonging for millennials and Gen Z aged people in a faith community, rather that hoping the status quo of the past will suffice.

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“…While not recognized as denominations, these supra-congregation religious networks provide many of the same functions that denominations did (e.g., conferences, professional training, website branding), though with less formal authority structures. For this reason, several studies focus explicitly on nondenominational congregations and their associated networks (e.g., Thumma 1999;Thumma and Lummis 2007;Thumma 2010aThumma , 2010bSchneider et al 2010;Smith et al 2011;Kujawa-Holbrook 2013;Guest 2017;Hall 2016;Brauer 2017;Roberts 2020).…”

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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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The Emerging Church in Transatlantic Perspective

Abstract: Is the Emerging Church movement (ECM) a single transnational movement

Cited by 6 publications

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From Protestant Ethic to Neoliberal Logic: Evangelicals at the Interface of Culture and Politics

From Protestant Ethic to Neoliberal Logic: Evangelicals at the Interface of Culture and Politics

“They made space for me”

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

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