Emerging, Emergent, Emergence: Boundary Maintenance, Definition Construction, and Legitimation Strategies in the Establishment of a Post-Evangelical Subculture

Extending social anthropologist Mary Douglas's theory of purity and danger, this article employs a form of textual and discourse analysis and draws on subcultural identity theory. The article argues that one central aspect of social formation occurs through definitional battles or arguments sit...

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Main Author: Cooper, Travis Warren (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 398-417
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Congregation / Legitimation / Strategy
RelBib Classification:KBQ North America
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B Sociolinguistics
B purity and danger
B discourse and textual analysis
B Emerging Church Movement
B boundary maintenance
B Evangelicalism
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