Practising Ecumenism Through Boundary Work and Meta-Coding
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4604256 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Thomas G Kirsch (0000-0002-6521-4128, University of Konstanz, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 44 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 345-359 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2018.1425068 |
| OpenAlex | W2789680650 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on religion in Zambia, this article engages critically with approaches that suggest that ecumenism necessarily occurs across socio-religious boundaries. I argue that the objective of ecumenism – namely, good-willed co-operation between religious practitioners who are otherwise separated from each other in terms of their institutional affiliations – can also be attained through boundary work and use of the meta-codes ‘non-Christian – Christian’ and ‘Christian –“real” Christian’. I contend that using these meta-codes in the logic of what has been called ‘fractal recursion’ allows people to stress situationally the existence of commonalities between religious practitioners and/or religious groupings that, at other points in time, are perceived to be different from each other. In this way, the shifting of categorical boundaries produces ecumenical reality effects
Boundary-work · Ecumenism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,71 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |