Alleluia (eBook)

An Ethnographic Study

Don Swenson (Autor)

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2018
190 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498546645 (ISBN)

Infos

The Alleluia Community is a covenant, charismatic, and ecumenical community that has thrived in living a radical version of the Christian tradition. Using a mixed methods approach, the author has documented empirically the possibility of living the faith and of acting according to its high standards.

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The Alleluia Community is a unique Christian community of over three hundred committed charismatic Christians in Augusta, Georgia, who live a covenant and ecumenical lifestyle. Emerging from the Charismatic Renewal Movement of the 1960s, members of Alleluia have maintained a lively charismatic dimension of the Christian tradition with a willingness to make a life-time covenant commitment to each other. Since 1973, this group of people has exhibited heroic virtue, self-sacrifice, humility, deference for one another, and service to others outside their boundaries. They claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Their leaders lead with a strong sense of service and Christian love and a willingness to lay down their own agendas. A major feature of these covenant makers is that they strive for daily Christian unity while being committed to one of the twelve-plus various denominations and fellowships. Swenson had the opportunity of living among these people for twenty months. During this time, he used a mixed method approach involving over one hundred interviews and three hundred instruments to create both qualitative and quantitative measures of the lives of these people. To structure their story, he used the dilemmas of the institutionalization of religion from the scholarship of Thomas O'Dea and secularization theory. The data gathered give abundant evidence that these Alleluia faithful have substantively resisted the secular influence so common in Western culture.

Autor

Don Swenson is professor emeritus of sociology at Mount Royal University.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Conceptual Framework, Historical Background, and Methodology1. The Fundamental Dilemma: Alleluia and Its Secular Environment2. The Dilemma of Mixed Motivation: A Case Study of the Elders of the Alleluia Community3. The Symbolic Dilemma: Ritual Manifested in Alleluia4. The Dilemma of Administrative Order: Gender Roles in Alleluia5. The Dilemma of Delimitation: A Study of Ethics within the Alleluia Community6. The Dilemma of Power: A Study of Conversion in Alleluia7. The Interpretative Dilemma: An Investigation of Belief Systems in AlleluiaConclusion

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 23 Illustrations including: - 13 Black & White Illustrations; - 10 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Alleluia Community • Augusta • charismatic • Charismatic Christians • Charismatic Renewal Movement • Covenant • Ecumenical • ethnography • Georgia • Grace • heroic virtue • radical lifestyle • safeguards to secular influence • Servant Leadership • Thomas O’Dea
• ISBN-13: 9781498546645 / 9781498546645