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SUMMARY:Religious Social Forms in American Christianity Yesterday and Toda
 y
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230325
DTSTAMP:20260426T080209Z
UID:religious-social-forms-in-american-christiani-en-1-8381@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Christianity has long been the dominant religious tradition bo
 th in North and in Latin America. Internally highly diverse\, it includes 
 Catholicism as well as various Protestant traditions\, such as Pentecostal
 ism\, Evangelicalism\, the Mainline and\, between these\, many intersectin
 g and overlapping currents. Despite this breadth\, Christianity evinces st
 ructural similarities in how adherents organize to practice their faith: w
 hether within large\, bureaucratic denominations and their individual cong
 regations (organizations)\; in smaller communities within or outside of re
 ligious organizations (groups)\; in flexible online and offline formations
  with various nodes and porous boundaries that integrate diverse actors\, 
 roles and identities (networks)\; in highly dynamic\, not yet institutiona
 lized communities pursuing specific religious goals (movements)\; in the c
 ontext of larger gatherings\, such as religious conventions (events)\; in 
 the context of religious fairs and exhibitions (markets)\; in one-on-one r
 eligious interaction\, such as praying together (dyads)\; or\, more genera
 lly\, in broadly shared religious understandings and expectations (institu
 tions). This spectrum of social forms in the newer sociology of religion o
 ffers an alternative approach to existing concepts such as church and sect
  (Weber)\, mysticism (Troeltsch)\, denomination (Niebuhr)\, and cult (Star
 k/Bainbridge)\, and resonates with more recent discussions in the sociolog
 y of organizations about where to draw the line between religious movement
  and formal organization.\n\nThe aim of the workshop is to (1) bring toget
 her a range of empirical examples that demonstrate the plurality of Christ
 ianity in the Americas in terms of its social forms in past and present\; 
 (2) critically consider the potential of theories of social forms in the s
 ociology of religion for analyzing broader changes in the American religio
 us landscape\; and (3) explore how a given Christian tradition’s dominan
 t social form(s) may impact its ability to sustainably integrate into the 
 American religious landscape.\n\nThe workshop is funded by the Cluster of 
 Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Unive
 rsität Münster and is organized in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Astrid Reu
 ter. For further information\, please contact Maren Freudenberg.\n\n    
     
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-social-forms-in-american-chri
 stiani-en-1/
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SUMMARY:Religious Social Forms in American Christianity Yesterday and Toda
 y
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230324
DTSTAMP:20260426T080209Z
UID:religious-social-forms-in-american-christiani-en-1-8380@ceres.rub.de
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Christianity has long been the dominant religious tradition bo
 th in North and in Latin America. Internally highly diverse\, it includes 
 Catholicism as well as various Protestant traditions\, such as Pentecostal
 ism\, Evangelicalism\, the Mainline and\, between these\, many intersectin
 g and overlapping currents. Despite this breadth\, Christianity evinces st
 ructural similarities in how adherents organize to practice their faith: w
 hether within large\, bureaucratic denominations and their individual cong
 regations (organizations)\; in smaller communities within or outside of re
 ligious organizations (groups)\; in flexible online and offline formations
  with various nodes and porous boundaries that integrate diverse actors\, 
 roles and identities (networks)\; in highly dynamic\, not yet institutiona
 lized communities pursuing specific religious goals (movements)\; in the c
 ontext of larger gatherings\, such as religious conventions (events)\; in 
 the context of religious fairs and exhibitions (markets)\; in one-on-one r
 eligious interaction\, such as praying together (dyads)\; or\, more genera
 lly\, in broadly shared religious understandings and expectations (institu
 tions). This spectrum of social forms in the newer sociology of religion o
 ffers an alternative approach to existing concepts such as church and sect
  (Weber)\, mysticism (Troeltsch)\, denomination (Niebuhr)\, and cult (Star
 k/Bainbridge)\, and resonates with more recent discussions in the sociolog
 y of organizations about where to draw the line between religious movement
  and formal organization.\n\nThe aim of the workshop is to (1) bring toget
 her a range of empirical examples that demonstrate the plurality of Christ
 ianity in the Americas in terms of its social forms in past and present\; 
 (2) critically consider the potential of theories of social forms in the s
 ociology of religion for analyzing broader changes in the American religio
 us landscape\; and (3) explore how a given Christian tradition’s dominan
 t social form(s) may impact its ability to sustainably integrate into the 
 American religious landscape.\n\nThe workshop is funded by the Cluster of 
 Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Unive
 rsität Münster and is organized in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Astrid Reu
 ter. For further information\, please contact Maren Freudenberg.\n\n    
     
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-social-forms-in-american-chri
 stiani-en-1/
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