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The Emerging Church in Transatlantic Perspective
Author(s) -
Guest Mathew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal for the scientific study of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1468-5906
pISSN - 0021-8294
DOI - 10.1111/jssr.12326
Subject(s) - globe , perspective (graphical) , identity (music) , trace (psycholinguistics) , kingdom , national identity , sociology , identity formation , political science , economic geography , genealogy , gender studies , political economy , history , geography , social science , law , aesthetics , medicine , paleontology , negotiation , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , biology , politics , computer science , ophthalmology
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.