Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities

A Comparative Ethnographic Study

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Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities

A Comparative Ethnographic Study

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Through ethnographic research, Killian examines vitality in Philadelphia and Berea, two Christian Intentional Communities whose participants live in close proximity with one another to achieve religious values. Pulling from Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, Killian argues that the vitality of both communities cannot be reduced to deterministic structural, individual, or organizational causes. Rather, vitality in these communities is affected by all of these causes in relationship to one another. In other words, it’s not that each explanation “matters” (e.g., social structures matter, organizational behaviors matter, individual religious choices matter), but that these explanations matter to each other (e.g., social structures matter to individual choices, individual choices matter to organizational behaviors, and social structures matter to organizational choices, etc.). To make this argument, Killian develops the idea of the vitality nexus—the interconnected relationship between the various explanations of religious vitality.

Table of Contents

Introduction:Christian Intentional Communities
1. Religious Vitality: Understanding the Argument2. A Deeper Look at Philadelphia and Berea
3. Why People Joined Berea and Philadelphia: Structure, Agency, and Religious Vitality
4. Prophecy, Egalitarianism, and a Beautifully Broken Building: Charisma in Philadelphia and Berea5. Cultural Antiphony: Identity, Praxis, and Social Control in Philadelphia
6. The Parish Consciousness: Identity, Praxis, and Ecology in Berea
Conclusion: The Religious Vitality Nexus

Product details

Published 25 Sep 2017
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 226
ISBN 9781498546614
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 17 Color Photos, 3 Tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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