Stephen Ellingson
Biographic Data
| ID | 178832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Ellingson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellingson |
| SIGNATURE | ELLINGSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals
The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry
Religion and Refugee Well-Being: The Importance of Inclusive Community
We use a large sample of refugees in Utica, New York to investigate how religiosity and the ability to practice religion are related to happiness in one's community. We analyze religious and secular facets of the community in which they live, such as perceived ability to practice their religion, sense of safety, and experiences of discrimination. Contrary to the literature on broader populations, we find that religiosity is unrelated to refugees'…
High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America, by James Wellman, Jr., Katie Corcoran, and Kate Stockly
High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America, by JAMES WELLMAN, JR., KATIE CORCORAN, AND KATE STOCKLY High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America, by JAMES WELLMAN, JR., KATIE CORCORAN, AND KATE STOCKLY. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 1 354 pp.; $24.95 (hardcover). Stephen Ellingson Stephen Ellingson Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volu…
Almost Like a Real Band: Navigating a Gendered Jazz Art World
Why Worship Matters: Lessons From Lutheran Congregations Struggling in a World of Liturgical Change
To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
Conclusions: Embeddedness, Strategic Choices, and Religious Social Movements
Chapter 6 reviews the major tenets of an embedded perspective about movement emergence and the primary findings about the relationship between different types of embeddedness and REMO’s strategic choices about framing, collective identity, and alliances. It identifies several lessons about religious social movements that emerged from the research and offers an explanation about why religious social movements do not neatly follow existing theories…
Mission, Strategy, and the Search of Legitimacy
This chapter focuses on the myriad choices activists face as they attempt to establish new movement organizations and how those choices are limited by the religious context in which they work. It describes how a REMO’s embeddedness in particular theological, Biblical, and organizational cultures shapes how it crafts its mission and goals. In particular the analysis identifies how activists create the missions and goals of nascent movement organiz…
Creating Religious Environmental Traditions
Chapter 4 charts the creation of green religious traditions and, more specifically, how activists borrow and adapt images, theological warrants, and ritual practices from their own traditions to craft new environmental ethics. They do so constrained not just by what is available in the toolkit, but also by how such borrowing and adapting might be perceived by potential constituencies. This chapter shows how being embedded in particular religious …
A Greener Faith
This chapter opens with a history of religious environmentalism and the new religious movement that emerged during the 1990s and early 2000s. It outlines competing explanations for movement emergence and development, and identifies the limitations of political opportunity, resource dependence, and cultural-institutional explanations. It then describes a new perspective based on the concept of “embeddedness” from economic sociology. This new appro…
Coalition Building and the Politics of Cooperation in the Emergent Movement
This chapter describes the inter-organizational networks among REMOs, and between REMOs and secular environmental movement organizations, and examines how different types and degrees of embeddedness influence cooperative relations. First, it looks at the ways in which REMOs’ embeddedness in religious authority systems, audiences, and cultures makes some REMOs unwilling or hesitant to enter into alliances while encouraging other REMOs to seek out …
The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
This chapter explains the emergence of the religious environmental movement. It unpacks the founding stories of religious environmental organizations to show how activists’ embeddedness within particular religious organizations and networks (from churches and denominations to interfaith parachurch groups), religious traditions, and particular ecological settings work together to create several different pathways to the foundings of these new orga…
To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Book Review| February 01 2014 Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. By Justin G. Wilford. New York University Press, 2012. xiv + 220 pages. $24.00 paper, $79.00 cloth, $24.00 ebook. Stephen Ellingson Stephen Ellingson Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2014…
Between God & Green: How Evangelicals are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change by Katherine K. Wilkinson
The Structure of Religious Environmentalism: Movement Organizations, Interorganizational Networks, and Collective Action
Historically, religious groups have been absent from the American environmental movement, but since the late 1990s a host of new religious environmental movement organizations (REMOs) have emerged. Little is known about REMOs or how religion structures the nascent movement field. Drawing on interviews with leaders of 63 REMOs in the United States, we examined whether theological frames and religious affiliations, on the one hand, and environmenta…
New Research on Megachurches: Non‐Denominationalism and Sectarianism
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction History, Demographics, and Culture of Megachurches Explaining the Emergence, Growth, and Success of Megachurches Megachurches and the Pull Toward Non-Denominationalism and Sectarianism Future Research Bibliography
Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion
Journal Article Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion Get access Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion, by GREGORY C. STANCZAK. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006, 223 pp.; $23.95 USD (paper), $69.00 USD (cloth). Stephen Ellingson Stephen Ellingson Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70, Issue 1, SPRING 2009…
The Rise of the Megachurches and Changes in Religious Culture: Review Article
Megachurches represent an emerging and powerful force within American Religion. These large, Protestant churches that average at least 2,000 attendees per week are reshaping religion locally, regionally, and nationally as well as at the denominational and congregational levels. Megachurch leaders have been leaders in religious innovation since the 1970s, ushering in major changes in church architecture, ritual practices, polity, and marketing. In…
The Sexual Organization of the City
Drawing on extensive surveys and interviews with Chicago adults, Edward O. Laumann and his colleagues show that the city is, in the face of pop culture evidence to the contrary, a place where sexual choices and options are constrained. From Wicker Park and Boys Town to the South Side and Pilsen, the editors observe that sexual behavior and partnering are significantly limited by such factors as the neighborhood you live in, your ethnicity, your s…
Constructing Causal Stories and Moral Boundaries
This chapter examines institutional approaches to sexual problems by analyzing the interpretive stories and intervention strategies employed by healthcare and social-service organizations in Chicago. While institutional actors primarily rely on an institutionally specific lens and resources to address sexuality issues, they also draw on broad cultural understandings about human agency, sexual risk, and sexual values. Since the nineteenth century,…
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality
This chapter explains how congregations' leaders devise policies and practices to address the sexuality issues facing members and how they attempt to channel sexual identities, sexual behaviors, and relationships into religiously sanctioned expressions. It describes how clergy and lay leaders take into account local social forces such as the demographic makeup of particular neighborhoods and the sexual cultures of residents as they negotiate betw…
Sexual Organization of the City
Race and the Construction of Same-Sex Sex Markets in Four Chicago Neighborhoods
This chapter examines how race, ethnicity, and geography converge in the construction of sexual identities and same-sex sex markets. It identifies two general types of market: transactional and relational. In the transactional market, the goal of market activity is efficiently finding partners for short-term sexual encounters, and these encounters, or transactions, are facilitated by a number of search mechanisms, such as the physical appearance …
Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati
This analysis of the public debate and riots about abolitionism in antebellum Cincinnati uses constructivist approaches to demonstrate how discourse makes some forms of action possible and legitimate and, conversely, how collective action transforms the meaning and structure of discourse. Two incidents of mob violence in Cincinnati interrupted the discursive struggle over abolitionism, undermining some diagnoses and solutions while making others …
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality
Using data from open-ended interviews with religious leaders in three Chicago neighborhoods in combination with demographic and survey data for area residents, this article demonstrates how local sexual norms and practices shape congregational responses to sexuality issues. These data reveal that local norms about sexual behavior and identity, and congregational identities and histories, are usually more salient than polity, official teaching, or…
Straining at the Tie That Binds: Congregational Conflict in the 1980s
Penny Edgell Becker, Stephen J. Ellingson, Richard W. Flory, Wendy Griswold, Fred Kniss, Timothy Nelson, Straining at the Tie That Binds: Congregational Conflict in the 1980s, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), pp. 193-209
The Structure of Religious Environmentalism: Movement Organizations, Interorganizational Networks, and Collective Action
Historically, religious groups have been absent from the American environmental movement, but since the late 1990s a host of new religious environmental movement organizations (REMOs) have emerged. Little is known about REMOs or how religion structures the nascent movement field. Drawing on interviews with leaders of 63 REMOs in the United States, we examined whether theological frames and religious affiliations, on the one hand, and environmenta…
The Rise of the Megachurches and Changes in Religious Culture: Review Article
Megachurches represent an emerging and powerful force within American Religion. These large, Protestant churches that average at least 2,000 attendees per week are reshaping religion locally, regionally, and nationally as well as at the denominational and congregational levels. Megachurch leaders have been leaders in religious innovation since the 1970s, ushering in major changes in church architecture, ritual practices, polity, and marketing. In…
The New Spirituality from a Social Science Perspective
Almost Like a Real Band: Navigating a Gendered Jazz Art World
The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry
Religion and Refugee Well-Being: The Importance of Inclusive Community
We use a large sample of refugees in Utica, New York to investigate how religiosity and the ability to practice religion are related to happiness in one's community. We analyze religious and secular facets of the community in which they live, such as perceived ability to practice their religion, sense of safety, and experiences of discrimination. Contrary to the literature on broader populations, we find that religiosity is unrelated to refugees'…
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa.Adam Ashforth
Straining at the Tie That Binds: Congregational Conflict in the 1980s
Penny Edgell Becker, Stephen J. Ellingson, Richard W. Flory, Wendy Griswold, Fred Kniss, Timothy Nelson, Straining at the Tie That Binds: Congregational Conflict in the 1980s, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), pp. 193-209
Discreet Indiscretions: The Social Organization of Gossip. Jorg R. Bergmann , John Bednarz, Jr
Practicing Virtues: Moral Traditions at Quaker and Military Boarding Schools
Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati
This analysis of the public debate and riots about abolitionism in antebellum Cincinnati uses constructivist approaches to demonstrate how discourse makes some forms of action possible and legitimate and, conversely, how collective action transforms the meaning and structure of discourse. Two incidents of mob violence in Cincinnati interrupted the discursive struggle over abolitionism, undermining some diagnoses and solutions while making others …
Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign Revisited
The New Spirituality from a Social Science Perspective
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality
Using data from open-ended interviews with religious leaders in three Chicago neighborhoods in combination with demographic and survey data for area residents, this article demonstrates how local sexual norms and practices shape congregational responses to sexuality issues. These data reveal that local norms about sexual behavior and identity, and congregational identities and histories, are usually more salient than polity, official teaching, or…
Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Sexual Organization of the City
Drawing on extensive surveys and interviews with Chicago adults, Edward O. Laumann and his colleagues show that the city is, in the face of pop culture evidence to the contrary, a place where sexual choices and options are constrained. From Wicker Park and Boys Town to the South Side and Pilsen, the editors observe that sexual behavior and partnering are significantly limited by such factors as the neighborhood you live in, your ethnicity, your s…
Constructing Causal Stories and Moral Boundaries
This chapter examines institutional approaches to sexual problems by analyzing the interpretive stories and intervention strategies employed by healthcare and social-service organizations in Chicago. While institutional actors primarily rely on an institutionally specific lens and resources to address sexuality issues, they also draw on broad cultural understandings about human agency, sexual risk, and sexual values. Since the nineteenth century,…
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality
This chapter explains how congregations' leaders devise policies and practices to address the sexuality issues facing members and how they attempt to channel sexual identities, sexual behaviors, and relationships into religiously sanctioned expressions. It describes how clergy and lay leaders take into account local social forces such as the demographic makeup of particular neighborhoods and the sexual cultures of residents as they negotiate betw…
Sexual Organization of the City
Race and the Construction of Same-Sex Sex Markets in Four Chicago Neighborhoods
This chapter examines how race, ethnicity, and geography converge in the construction of sexual identities and same-sex sex markets. It identifies two general types of market: transactional and relational. In the transactional market, the goal of market activity is efficiently finding partners for short-term sexual encounters, and these encounters, or transactions, are facilitated by a number of search mechanisms, such as the physical appearance …
The Rise of the Megachurches and Changes in Religious Culture: Review Article
Megachurches represent an emerging and powerful force within American Religion. These large, Protestant churches that average at least 2,000 attendees per week are reshaping religion locally, regionally, and nationally as well as at the denominational and congregational levels. Megachurch leaders have been leaders in religious innovation since the 1970s, ushering in major changes in church architecture, ritual practices, polity, and marketing. In…
Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion
Journal Article Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion Get access Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion, by GREGORY C. STANCZAK. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006, 223 pp.; $23.95 USD (paper), $69.00 USD (cloth). Stephen Ellingson Stephen Ellingson Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70, Issue 1, SPRING 2009…
New Research on Megachurches: Non‐Denominationalism and Sectarianism
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction History, Demographics, and Culture of Megachurches Explaining the Emergence, Growth, and Success of Megachurches Megachurches and the Pull Toward Non-Denominationalism and Sectarianism Future Research Bibliography
Between God & Green: How Evangelicals are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change by Katherine K. Wilkinson
The Structure of Religious Environmentalism: Movement Organizations, Interorganizational Networks, and Collective Action
Historically, religious groups have been absent from the American environmental movement, but since the late 1990s a host of new religious environmental movement organizations (REMOs) have emerged. Little is known about REMOs or how religion structures the nascent movement field. Drawing on interviews with leaders of 63 REMOs in the United States, we examined whether theological frames and religious affiliations, on the one hand, and environmenta…
Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Book Review| February 01 2014 Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. By Justin G. Wilford. New York University Press, 2012. xiv + 220 pages. $24.00 paper, $79.00 cloth, $24.00 ebook. Stephen Ellingson Stephen Ellingson Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2014…
To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
Conclusions: Embeddedness, Strategic Choices, and Religious Social Movements
Chapter 6 reviews the major tenets of an embedded perspective about movement emergence and the primary findings about the relationship between different types of embeddedness and REMO’s strategic choices about framing, collective identity, and alliances. It identifies several lessons about religious social movements that emerged from the research and offers an explanation about why religious social movements do not neatly follow existing theories…
Mission, Strategy, and the Search of Legitimacy
This chapter focuses on the myriad choices activists face as they attempt to establish new movement organizations and how those choices are limited by the religious context in which they work. It describes how a REMO’s embeddedness in particular theological, Biblical, and organizational cultures shapes how it crafts its mission and goals. In particular the analysis identifies how activists create the missions and goals of nascent movement organiz…
Creating Religious Environmental Traditions
Chapter 4 charts the creation of green religious traditions and, more specifically, how activists borrow and adapt images, theological warrants, and ritual practices from their own traditions to craft new environmental ethics. They do so constrained not just by what is available in the toolkit, but also by how such borrowing and adapting might be perceived by potential constituencies. This chapter shows how being embedded in particular religious …
A Greener Faith
This chapter opens with a history of religious environmentalism and the new religious movement that emerged during the 1990s and early 2000s. It outlines competing explanations for movement emergence and development, and identifies the limitations of political opportunity, resource dependence, and cultural-institutional explanations. It then describes a new perspective based on the concept of “embeddedness” from economic sociology. This new appro…
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