The Neighborhood (<i>vicus</i>) of the Corinthian<i>ekklēsia</i>: Beyond Family-Based Descriptions of the First Urban Christ-Believers

Last, Richard

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“…(2) A second trajectory can be seen in the way in which the integration of Christ believers into the web of different inner-city networks and network intersections leads to the formation of personal religious topographies according to the individuals' work or residence location and their spatial patterns of movements and activities. In particular, as already shown by a few articles sifting through a rather scanty body of literary evidence (Snyder 2007;Billings 2011;Last 2016), a focus on neighbouring relationship may help re-imagine religious recruitment to Christ religion by thinking housing differently and, therefore, shifting the gaze from the interior of the buildings to the nearby streets.…”

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Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Urciuoli¹

Religion and Urbanity Online

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The aim of this paper is to provide the historical research on both religion and the city with a serviceable analytical distinction between 'urbanisation' and 'citification' as two sets of socio-spatial phenomena related to the role of religion in city-spaces. Inspired by modern social and political theory, the notion of 'citification' has been crafted with the purpose to be tested on early Christ religion in order to better foreground its character of an 'urban religion'. The paper ends by suggesting how the concept of 'citification' can be profitably applied to the historical study of other ancient constellations of religiously infused spatial practices in interaction with the urban space. Focus, applied concepts and methods Testing 'Urban Religion' on past cities and ancient religions*1 The path to the study of urban religion has to be cleared. The urban world, […], is alive with the competing and divergent dreams projected onto it and found within it by outsiders. It is crisscrossed by discrepant narratives and fissured by incommensurable visions of what is possible and good in cities. Before we look at cases of religious engagement with the urban world, then, we have to step back and examine what converges on that world ; to see what Moishe Sacks, Mama Lola, and the other religious improvisors who appear in this collection of essays made of the city for themselves, we have to consider first the broad outlines of what was being made of the city for and against them, in the plans and programs of others (Orsi 1999a: 12; emphasis mine). These lines are taken from Robert Orsi's introductory chapter of Gods of the City (Orsi 1999a), the collective volume on lived religion in contemporary American cities that, more twenty years ago, sparked the study of 'urban religion' (Garbin and Strhan 2017b: 4; see Rüpke 2020: 4-8). The epistemological barriers created by the academic division of labour probably explain why it took almost fifteen years to fully realise that Orsi's agenda, as instantiated by the quotation above, might apply also to past cities and ancient religions: namely, to 'cases of religious engagement with urban world(s)' that are not 'alive' and out there, like in social science ethnographies (e.g., Orsi 1985; Hall 1997; McGuire 2008), but dead and nowhere but in archaeological findings and written records. Indeed, the ERC-funded project on 'Lived Ancient Religion' (LAR) has shown that there always existed 'religious improvisers,' small religious entrepreneurs, and self-styled religious experts among the urban commoners (e.g., Gasparini et al. 2020; Albrecht et al. 2018; for the initial agenda, see Rüpke 2011). An extensive body of cross-temporal and-disciplinary research spanning from Karanis to Palmyra, from Pergamum and Carthage to Pompeii and Rome, the LAR approach has demonstrated that embarking on the search of the ancient Mediterranean 'colleagues' of the creative protagonists of Gods of the City does make sense. Rather, the unaccomplished task is to foreground the 'spatiality' of these ancient loc...

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Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Urciuoli¹

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Memaknai Ulang Ecclesia Domestica di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Aryanto

Lelono

2021

Dun

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Abstract. The pandemic covid-19 has compeled Catholic families to pray at home instead of going to the Church every Sunday, and it changed the expression of their faith. This new condition helped families to realize their role as formators of spiritual life for the family members. The purpose of this research was to look out how the social distancing effects the role of the family as the formator for faith formation of their children during pandemic covid-19. The research conducted by qualitative and quantitative approach toward fivety Catholic families. Through this research it was shown that during covid-19 pandemic family had a big chance of doing the role as the Church Family (ecclesia domestica) that emphasizing the future mission of the Church is depending on the family life. The Church Family is understood as the smallest cell of the Church as the sacrament, the visible sign of God, and becomes a place for encountering the faithful to Jesus Christ in the world.Abstrak. Pandemi covid-19 telah memaksa keluarga-keluarga Kristiani untuk beribadah di rumah dan mengubah cara menggereja mereka. Situasi itu menjadikan keluarga menyadari perannya sebagai pembina utama hidup rohani anggota keluarga. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana pengaruh pembatasan sosial terhadap peran keluarga dalam pendidikan iman anak di masa pandemi covid-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif terhadap 50 keluarga Katolik. Melalui penelitian ini diperoleh gambaran bahwa dalam masa pandemic covid-19 ini keluarga berkesempatan menjalankan peran sebagai Gereja keluarga (ecclesia domestica) yang menekankan masa depan pewartaan Gereja adalah melalui hidup keluarga. Gereja keluarga dipahami sebagai sel terkecil yang menjadi bagian dari Gereja sebagai sakramen, tanda yang kelihatan dari Allah, dan menjadi medan pertemuan orang beriman dengan Yesus Kristus di dunia.

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Engaging emerging adults: A missional model of ministry for house churches in South Africa

Knoetze,

Prince

2024

Verbum et Ecclesia

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This article examines the role of house churches in South Africa in the ministry of emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood is a turbulent life stage that is characterised by change and exploration. Additionally, it involves increasing responsibility and autonomy as young people assume more adult roles. This article suggests that emerging adulthood is a critical life stage for several reasons. Given the contextual realities of South Africa (high unemployment, high levels of crime, poverty), as well as the associated negative behaviour and the increasing religious disaffiliation among emerging adults, it is essential to provide nurturing support to this group in particular. To this end, this article presents a missional model for house churches as an alternative method of ministry for reaching and retaining this population group. The characteristics of house churches and emerging adults are explored and serve as the backdrop for this missional model.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article makes intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions by engaging the theological disciplines of missiology and practical theology as well as psychology and sociology.

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The Neighborhood (vicus) of the Corinthianekklēsia: Beyond Family-Based Descriptions of the First Urban Christ-Believers

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Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion

Memaknai Ulang Ecclesia Domestica di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Engaging emerging adults: A missional model of ministry for house churches in South Africa

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