New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9780190273095
ISBN-13 : 0190273097
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Synopsis New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism by : Wes Markofski

For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism. However, if a growing chorus of evangelical leaders, media pundits, and religious scholars is to be believed, the era of uncontested evangelical conservatism is on the brink of collapse-if it hasn't collapsed already. Combining vivid ethnographic storytelling and incisive theoretical analysis, New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism introduces readers to the fascinating and unexplored terrain of neo-monastic evangelicalism. Often located in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, new monastic communities pursue religiously inspired visions of racial, social, and economic justice-alongside personal spiritual transformation-through diverse and creative expressions of radical community. In this account, Wes Markofski has immersed himself in the paradoxical world of evangelical neo-monasticism, focusing on the Urban Monastery-an influential neo-monastic community located in a gritty, racially diverse neighborhood in a major Midwestern American city. The resulting account of the way in which this movement reflects and is contributing to the transformation of American evangelicalism challenges entrenched stereotypes and calls attention to the dynamic diversity of religious and political points of view which vie for supremacy in the American evangelical subculture. New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism is the first sociological analysis of new monastic evangelicalism and the first major work to theorize the growing theological and political diversity within twenty-first-century American evangelicalism.

New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9780190258016
ISBN-13 : 0190258012
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism by : Wes Markofski

In New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, Wes Markofski combines vivid ethnographic storytelling and incisive theoretical analysis to introduce readers to the fascinating and unexplored terrain of the burgeoning neo-monastic evangelical movement.

Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9781666731422
ISBN-13 : 1666731420
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Kingdom Come by : Jason Byassee

For four decades, the Rev. Dr. Jonathan R. Wilson has cultivated an imagination for “kingdom realism” as a pastor, teacher, theologian, and friend. To celebrate his seventieth birthday, Kingdom Come has gathered reflections from fellow theologians, popular authors, poets, and practitioners to mark both the range of Wilson’s influence on the Christian church and the consistency of his prayer and work for God’s kingdom to come here on earth as it is in heaven.

Melodies of a New Monasticism

Melodies of a New Monasticism
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781620329931
ISBN-13 : 162032993X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Melodies of a New Monasticism by : Craig Gardiner

The New Monastic Movement is a vibrant source of renewal for the church’s life and mission. Many involved in this movement have quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s conviction that the church must recover ancient spiritual disciplines if it is to effectively engage “the powers that be.” Melodies of a New Monasticism adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music) to articulate the way that these early Christian virtues can be woven together in community. Creatively using this imagery, this book draws on the theological vision of Bonhoeffer and the contemporary witness of George MacLeod and the Iona Community to explore the interplay between discipleship, doctrine, and ethics. A recurring theme is the idea of Christ as the cantus firmus (the fixed song) around which people perform the diverse harmonies of God in church and world, including worship, ecumenism, healing, peace, justice, and ecology.

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of Christian Responses to Modern Culture

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of Christian Responses to Modern Culture
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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
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ISBN-10 : 9783643915030
ISBN-13 : 3643915039
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of Christian Responses to Modern Culture by : Kevin Maddy

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of Christian Responses to Modern Culture is a study of how the values and practices of monasticism are being shaped by the shift to a cultural understanding of Christianity in modern times. The values and practices of traditional monasticism are contrasted with those of various expressions of new monasticism against the background of a multicultural and fluid social environment in an effort to find some reciprocal illumination. The study aims to describe monasticism in terms of authenticity and lived religion.

Monasticism in Modern Times

Monasticism in Modern Times
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781317094388
ISBN-13 : 1317094387
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Monasticism in Modern Times by : Isabelle Jonveaux

This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However, the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns, the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America, a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic.

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9781000985948
ISBN-13 : 1000985946
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism by : Amanda J. Haste

Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to provide a penetrating insight into the role of music in self-care and as a vector for identity construction on both individual and community levels. The author explores the essential role of music in community dynamics, the rationale for using instruments, the implications of both chant-based and freestyle composition, gender-related differences in musical activity, the role of dance (‘music made visible’) in community life, the commodification of monastic music, the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon and the role of music in established and emerging neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity.

The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2

The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781725277472
ISBN-13 : 1725277476
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2 by : Terry Shoemaker

Millennials and progressive Christians are continuing their work of creating alternative spaces for spiritual and religious expressions in North America. The practices and beliefs of progressive Christian movements like the emerging church and millennials, who tend toward spirituality over and against religion, have been the targets of much criticism. Yet millennials and progressive Christians continue to both curate spaces for self- and collective expression while also engaging within contexts often critical or hostile. This collection analyzes these movements from theological, religious-studies, and social-scientific perspectives to provide a more holistic view of what is taking shape in religious and spiritual trends, and it ventures to project what may lie ahead for the progressive Christianity that is emerging and enduring.

The Subversive Evangelical

The Subversive Evangelical
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9780773558359
ISBN-13 : 0773558357
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Subversive Evangelical by : Peter J. Schuurman

Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as “religious Walmarts.” In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman shows how a growing group of “reflexive evangelicals” use irony to critique their own tradition and distinguish themselves from the stereotype of right-wing evangelicalism. Entering the Meeting House – an Ontario-based Anabaptist megachurch – as a participant observer, Schuurman discovers that the marketing is clever and the venue (a rented movie theatre) is attractive to the more than five thousand weekly attendees. But the heart of the church is its charismatic leader, Bruxy Cavey, whose anti-religious teaching and ironic tattoos offer a fresh image for evangelicals. This charisma, Schuurman argues, is not just the power of one individual; it is a dramatic production in which Cavey, his staff, and attendees cooperate, cultivating an identity as an “irreligious” megachurch and providing followers with a more culturally acceptable way to practise their faith in a secular age. Going behind the scenes to small group meetings, church dance parties, and the homes of attendees to investigate what motivates these reflexive evangelicals, Schuurman reveals a playful and provocative counterculture that distances itself from prevailing stereotypes while still embracing a conservative Christian faith.