James K Wellman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 257584 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James K Wellman |
| PRENOMES | James K |
| SOBRENOME | Wellman |
| ASSINATURA | WELLMAN J K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Why the Secular Academy Needs Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy
I make the empirical argument that most of humankind and much of the academy practices one form of religion and/or spiritual practice. And yet, in public life, secularity is assumed and regularized as rational and life giving. Recent science shows the power of spirituality and religion for human flourishing. And yet, many secularists diminish religion and assume the worst about it without evidence. I argue that cross-cultural religious literacy (…
Megachurches as Total Environments
Megachurches must be understood as total environments. By providing programmes for nearly every stage of life, megachurches combine a sense of solidarity with a feeling of dependence. Employing Randall Collins’s theory of interaction ritual chains, this chapter shows that the desire for emotional energy (EE), which is interpreted as the physical manifestation of God’s love, has been embraced by megachurches and is the key to understanding their s…
Why Religious Literacy Requires Emotional Literacy
The experience of faith in its affective and aesthetic brilliance and profundity captures and moves people to care and serve. Religious literacy must go beyond the knowledge collected in books and must discover why people love and treasure their faith. It not only involves beliefs and acts of piety, but also how one is transformed in one's heart, mind, and body. We use the embodied choice theory of religion to explain that humans combine emotion …
After Cloven Tongues of Fire
After Cloven Tongues of Fire is an ode to, a critique of, and a lament for liberal Protestantism. It has been awhile since I perused the latest historiography of a tradition that I studied early in my career. Hollinger’s devastating and entertaining assessment brought me up to date. He is the scholar for the task, a child of Protestantism, who lived and breathed it and then walked away from it. But he has done so without bitterness or even any wi…
People Forget He's Human
Most work on religious charismatic leadership is concentrated in the study of new religious movements to the neglect of more institutional forms. Whether findings from those extreme religious cases apply in the context of institutionalized religion is an empirical question. Drawing on charismatic leadership research in organizational studies, we propose that in institutionalized religion there is less conflict between the extraordinary and ordina…
“God Is Like a Drug...”
Megachurches have been criticized as superficial sources of entertainment that do not produce significant feelings of belonging, moral responsibility, or spirituality. This article challenges popular criticisms of megachurches and, drawing on interaction ritual theory, proposes that megachurches are successful interaction ritual venues and powerful purveyors of emotional religious experience. We predict that these interaction rituals produce posi…
Religious experience as a different world”
T.M. Luhrmann's (2012) When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God is an ambitious book. She argues that the faith experience of American evangelicals reflects
Religion and Regional Culture
Recently, there has been a call for social scientific studies of religion to start taking “place” seriously. This paper adds to this growing literature by embedding religious commitment within place. We propose that the tension religious groups experience with their surroundings partly depends on local contexts and that certain types of local contexts may generate more tension. These contexts include regions in which the nonreligiously affiliated…
Religion and Human Security
This book explores the long-unstudied relationship between religion and human security throughout the world. The 1950s marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary religious revival, during which religious political-parties and non-governmental organizations gained power around the globe. Until now, there has been little systematic study of the impact that this phenomenon has had on human welfare, except of a relationship between religious r…
Religion and human security
"Since the1950s the world has witnessed a period of extraordinary religious revival in which religious political parties and non-governmental organizations have gained power around the globe. At the same time, the international community has come to focus on the challenge of promoting global human security. This groundbreaking book explores how these trends are interacting. In theoretical essays and case studies from Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, the …
Reinhold Niebuhr
Spiritual Weapons
One Nation, Divisible
Portable Politics and Durable Religion
This study examines the portable politics and durable religion of American evangelical missionaries from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) in their experiences abroad culturally, politically, and religiously. The data comes from semi-structured interviews with 27 missionaries conducted between December 2003 and July 2005. We argue that the most plausible explanation of the durability of evangelical religion can be found by analyzing the multilayered na…
Peeling Back the Evangelical Onion
Trends in evangelical culture can be seen through a case study of evangelical laypersons and missionaries from the Pacific Northwest. While the outward dimension of mission work has changed, including more emphasis on cultural assimilation and a liberalizing view of the role of women, the core object of evangelicals' missions—conversion—remains intact. There are four layers of evangelical missionary belief structures: personal relationship with J…
Is Religious Violence Inevitable
Religion without a Net
The Power of Religious Publics
Preface The Public and the Public's Publics by Martin E. Marty Can Religion Be Religious in Public? by Phillip Hammond Public Religion vis-a-vis the Prophetic Role of Religion by James E. Wood, Jr. Multiculturalism and Public Religion: Is There a Common American Culture? by Robert N. Bellah Why Study About Religion? The Contribution of the Study of Religion to American Public Life by Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green Table Manners: Sitting Ar…
Seeker Churches
Decent and in Order
The Power of Religious Publics
Journal Article The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society, by William H. Swatos, Jr. And James K. Wellman, Jr. (eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999, 237 pp., $59.95 (cloth) Get access Eric Michael Mazur Eric Michael Mazur Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712363 Published:…
Introduction
Is Religious Violence Inevitable
Introduction
Religion and Regional Culture
Recently, there has been a call for social scientific studies of religion to start taking “place” seriously. This paper adds to this growing literature by embedding religious commitment within place. We propose that the tension religious groups experience with their surroundings partly depends on local contexts and that certain types of local contexts may generate more tension. These contexts include regions in which the nonreligiously affiliated…
Portable Politics and Durable Religion
This study examines the portable politics and durable religion of American evangelical missionaries from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) in their experiences abroad culturally, politically, and religiously. The data comes from semi-structured interviews with 27 missionaries conducted between December 2003 and July 2005. We argue that the most plausible explanation of the durability of evangelical religion can be found by analyzing the multilayered na…
Religion without a Net
People Forget He's Human
Most work on religious charismatic leadership is concentrated in the study of new religious movements to the neglect of more institutional forms. Whether findings from those extreme religious cases apply in the context of institutionalized religion is an empirical question. Drawing on charismatic leadership research in organizational studies, we propose that in institutionalized religion there is less conflict between the extraordinary and ordina…
Why Religious Literacy Requires Emotional Literacy
The experience of faith in its affective and aesthetic brilliance and profundity captures and moves people to care and serve. Religious literacy must go beyond the knowledge collected in books and must discover why people love and treasure their faith. It not only involves beliefs and acts of piety, but also how one is transformed in one's heart, mind, and body. We use the embodied choice theory of religion to explain that humans combine emotion …
Introduction
The Power of Religious Publics
Preface The Public and the Public's Publics by Martin E. Marty Can Religion Be Religious in Public? by Phillip Hammond Public Religion vis-a-vis the Prophetic Role of Religion by James E. Wood, Jr. Multiculturalism and Public Religion: Is There a Common American Culture? by Robert N. Bellah Why Study About Religion? The Contribution of the Study of Religion to American Public Life by Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green Table Manners: Sitting Ar…
Seeker Churches
Decent and in Order
The Power of Religious Publics
Journal Article The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society, by William H. Swatos, Jr. And James K. Wellman, Jr. (eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999, 237 pp., $59.95 (cloth) Get access Eric Michael Mazur Eric Michael Mazur Bucknell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712363 Published:…
Religion without a Net
Is Religious Violence Inevitable
Peeling Back the Evangelical Onion
Trends in evangelical culture can be seen through a case study of evangelical laypersons and missionaries from the Pacific Northwest. While the outward dimension of mission work has changed, including more emphasis on cultural assimilation and a liberalizing view of the role of women, the core object of evangelicals' missions—conversion—remains intact. There are four layers of evangelical missionary belief structures: personal relationship with J…
Portable Politics and Durable Religion
This study examines the portable politics and durable religion of American evangelical missionaries from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) in their experiences abroad culturally, politically, and religiously. The data comes from semi-structured interviews with 27 missionaries conducted between December 2003 and July 2005. We argue that the most plausible explanation of the durability of evangelical religion can be found by analyzing the multilayered na…
One Nation, Divisible
Spiritual Weapons
Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion and Human Security
This book explores the long-unstudied relationship between religion and human security throughout the world. The 1950s marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary religious revival, during which religious political-parties and non-governmental organizations gained power around the globe. Until now, there has been little systematic study of the impact that this phenomenon has had on human welfare, except of a relationship between religious r…
Religion and human security
"Since the1950s the world has witnessed a period of extraordinary religious revival in which religious political parties and non-governmental organizations have gained power around the globe. At the same time, the international community has come to focus on the challenge of promoting global human security. This groundbreaking book explores how these trends are interacting. In theoretical essays and case studies from Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, the …
Religion and Regional Culture
Recently, there has been a call for social scientific studies of religion to start taking “place” seriously. This paper adds to this growing literature by embedding religious commitment within place. We propose that the tension religious groups experience with their surroundings partly depends on local contexts and that certain types of local contexts may generate more tension. These contexts include regions in which the nonreligiously affiliated…
“God Is Like a Drug...”
Megachurches have been criticized as superficial sources of entertainment that do not produce significant feelings of belonging, moral responsibility, or spirituality. This article challenges popular criticisms of megachurches and, drawing on interaction ritual theory, proposes that megachurches are successful interaction ritual venues and powerful purveyors of emotional religious experience. We predict that these interaction rituals produce posi…
Religious experience as a different world”
T.M. Luhrmann's (2012) When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God is an ambitious book. She argues that the faith experience of American evangelicals reflects
People Forget He's Human
Most work on religious charismatic leadership is concentrated in the study of new religious movements to the neglect of more institutional forms. Whether findings from those extreme religious cases apply in the context of institutionalized religion is an empirical question. Drawing on charismatic leadership research in organizational studies, we propose that in institutionalized religion there is less conflict between the extraordinary and ordina…
After Cloven Tongues of Fire
After Cloven Tongues of Fire is an ode to, a critique of, and a lament for liberal Protestantism. It has been awhile since I perused the latest historiography of a tradition that I studied early in my career. Hollinger’s devastating and entertaining assessment brought me up to date. He is the scholar for the task, a child of Protestantism, who lived and breathed it and then walked away from it. But he has done so without bitterness or even any wi…
Megachurches as Total Environments
Megachurches must be understood as total environments. By providing programmes for nearly every stage of life, megachurches combine a sense of solidarity with a feeling of dependence. Employing Randall Collins’s theory of interaction ritual chains, this chapter shows that the desire for emotional energy (EE), which is interpreted as the physical manifestation of God’s love, has been embraced by megachurches and is the key to understanding their s…
Why Religious Literacy Requires Emotional Literacy
The experience of faith in its affective and aesthetic brilliance and profundity captures and moves people to care and serve. Religious literacy must go beyond the knowledge collected in books and must discover why people love and treasure their faith. It not only involves beliefs and acts of piety, but also how one is transformed in one's heart, mind, and body. We use the embodied choice theory of religion to explain that humans combine emotion …
Why the Secular Academy Needs Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy
I make the empirical argument that most of humankind and much of the academy practices one form of religion and/or spiritual practice. And yet, in public life, secularity is assumed and regularized as rational and life giving. Recent science shows the power of spirituality and religion for human flourishing. And yet, many secularists diminish religion and assume the worst about it without evidence. I argue that cross-cultural religious literacy (…
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