The Emerging Church in Transatlantic Perspective

Guest, Mathew

Abstract

Is the Emerging Church movement (ECM) a single transnational movement? Or is it a series of parallel religious orientations framed by nationally specific contexts? Cross-national comparisons of the many manifestations of the ECM remain scarce, especially as the development of the ECM across the globe (e.g., in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand) is most certainly affected by divergent histories and socioreligious landscapes. Focusing on a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom and the United States, I trace how these different cultural contexts determine variant patterns of ECM identity formation. Overall, a global perspective on the ECM calls for a theorization of the national development of religious movements and takes seriously the cultural and historical experiences that shape both its emergence in particular nations and the differentiated development of distinctive manifestations of ECM identity.

Citation

Guest, M. (2017). The Emerging Church in Transatlantic Perspective. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 56(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12326

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 4, 2017
• Online Publication Date: May 30, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 9, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 30, 2019
• Journal: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Print ISSN: 0021-8294
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-5906
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-51
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12326
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1355813