The Sunday Assembly in Scotland: Vestiges of Religious Memory and Practise in a Secular Congregation
This article draws on research undertaken with members of the Sunday Assembly, a secular congregation founded in London in 2013, which now has a presence in 70 cities worldwide. The Assembly has emerged into a space created by the current trend of secularism, and aims to provide its members to with...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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Practical theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 249-262 |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion KBF British Isles |
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Sunday Assembly
B post-church B Secularity B Edinburgh B Qualitative Research B Secularism |
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Summary: | This article draws on research undertaken with members of the Sunday Assembly, a secular congregation founded in London in 2013, which now has a presence in 70 cities worldwide. The Assembly has emerged into a space created by the current trend of secularism, and aims to provide its members to with the experience of a church-like congregation, without any religious or doctrinal elements. Yet interviews with members of the Assembly's congregation in Edinburgh expose a continuation of Christian practises, and a desire for further church-like elements, such as pastoral care. While secularism continues to occur in Scotland, this research would suggest that the process is not happening in a neat or linear fashion, and that those who identify as non-religious continue to have cause to draw on aspects of Christian memory and practise. |
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ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1344418 |