The Role of Church Assemblies in Building a Civil Society: The Case of the United Methodist General Conference's Debate on Homosexuality

This paper argues that church assemblies, as examples of “private legislatures,” help to build a civil society by modeling civility in discourse on controversial societal issues and by devising concrete means for effecting the resolution of those issues. We examine the UMC General Conference's...

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Authors: Wood, James R. (Author) ; Bloch, Jon P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1995
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1995, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-136
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