The Undocumented Embodied: Shaping the Space Where the Sacred and the Secular Intertwine

Wyller, Trygve

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“…Wyller, 2014). This evokes gendered implications due to the female-dominated workforce and the symbolic feminization of these areas, by negotiating and changing the conditioning values and norms of Church practices.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By relating the Church practices in welfare and diaconia to social changes and challenges, the letter and the platform shape 'hybrid spaces' where the sacred and the secular intertwine, as described in earlier research on social change in organizations and society (cf. Wyller, 2014). This also challenges prevalent Church norms of separating religious and social responsibilities by suggesting a more active social agency of the Church, while at the same time as connecting it to the practical history of Church involvement in the construction of the Swedish welfare society (cf.…”

Section: Gendered Social Innovation In the Church Of Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By highlighting the simultaneous persistency and transformability of norms conditioning socially innovative perspectives and practices of welfare and diaconia, Ahmed's approach is also applicable to the work on integration and inclusion in churches. A Church-oriented approach to social change in organizations and society is provided by Wyller (2014), who discusses the shaping of spaces where the sacred and the secular intertwine, where signs of dignity, community, justice, solidarity, mercy, hope, and faith are constructed by more or less conscious framing of houses, rooms, and routines. Wyller suggests that there are spaces in churches that are constructed neither as sacred nor secular, but as hybrid spaces where both dimensions intersect.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the light of previous research on social change in organizations and society, this evolutionary chain of individual toward organizational and societal change reflects the possibilities stemming from hybrid spaces of sacred and secular intertwinement to communication with the society as a whole, despite eventual restrained attitudes in the public society toward cooperation with religious associations (cf. Wyller, 2014).…”

Section: Gendered Social Innovation In the Church Of Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lindberg et al, 2015), and social change in organizations and societies (cf. Abrahamsson, 2014;Acker, 1999;Ahmed, 2012;Wyller, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered Potentials and Delimitations in the Church of Sweden’s Social Innovation

Nahnfledt¹,

Lindberg²

2017

Diaconia

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This paper presents a conceptual study of the gendered perspectives on welfare and diaconia articulated in two recently published policy documents by the Church of Sweden, the Church's platform for welfare and the Bishop's letter on diaconia. It distinguishes how social innovation processes in the Church are enhanced or hampered by gendered potentials and delimitations. Such processes are increasingly being perceived as essential to the changing role the Church has in society as a consequence of the formal separation from the Swedish state and the growing importance of civil society organizations (CSOs) as welfare-service providers in Sweden.

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Section: Gendered Social Innovation In the Church Of Swedenmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Gendered Social Innovation In the Church Of Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lindberg et al, 2015), and social change in organizations and societies (cf. Abrahamsson, 2014;Acker, 1999;Ahmed, 2012;Wyller, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered Potentials and Delimitations in the Church of Sweden’s Social Innovation

Nahnfledt¹,

Lindberg²

2017

Diaconia

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“God is Hidden in the Earthly Kingdom:” The Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Theory as Foundation of Scandivanian Secularity

Witte¹

2013

Secular and Sacred?

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Martin Luther's signature "two kingdoms" teaching of the sixteenth century was an early and innovative theory of secularization that lies at the heart of historical Scandinavian culture. Defying the organic medieval models of Western Christendom, Luther separated the heavenly and earthly kingdoms, the saint and the sinner, faith and reason, church and the state, Gospel and the Law, as well as the spiritual and secular uses of law, government and authority. Though God is separated from day-today life, Luther wrote, God is still hidden in the earthly kingdom" and can be seen through various "masks," "mists," and "mimes." Though the visible church is separated from the state and other institutions, religion remains pervasive in the common callings of every person to be God's prophet, priest and king in every vocation and location of life. Luther's two kingdoms theory is a complicated and controversial part of this thinking, but it is worth re-exploring today as pluralistic Scandinavia faces strong new pressures of both sacralization and secularization and seeks to discern anew "the hidden sacraliity of the secular.

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The Undocumented Embodied: Shaping the Space Where the Sacred and the Secular Intertwine

Cited by 2 publications

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Gendered Potentials and Delimitations in the Church of Sweden’s Social Innovation

Gendered Potentials and Delimitations in the Church of Sweden’s Social Innovation

“God is Hidden in the Earthly Kingdom:” The Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Theory as Foundation of Scandivanian Secularity

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