Joel Thiessen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 287116 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joel Thiessen |
| PRENOMES | Joel |
| SOBRENOME | Thiessen |
| ASSINATURA | THIESSEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ambrose University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7696-4653 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What Helps Canadian Catholics Grow Spiritually in the Parish
Mental Health and Illness Perceptions and Experiences in Canadian Christian Congregations
Few sociological studies have explored mental health and Christian congregations. Such research is absent in Canada. Using questionnaire data with 969 Christian congregants and leaders across theological traditions in Canada, this study examines how mental health is normalized or stigmatized in Canadian congregations. We draw from symbolic interactionist theory to argue that the narratives that congregations use and the resources they draw upon t…
Planting Seeds
Along with parents and schools, congregations are part of a "religious transmission ecosystem" with children. Using case study data with a Catholic parish in Canada, this article explores how this parish defines and approaches various roles and initiatives across the religious transmission ecosystem, along with its perceived and experienced obstacles and responses related to religious transmission. I argue that while parents are seen as the centr…
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada
This article investigates discipleship in Canada, with a focus on spiritual and discipleship practices and processes that help to facilitate spiritual growth among congregants. The study draws on survey data from over 250 Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant congregations, with over 9100 participating congregants. The data shows how those in each denominational tradition understand the spiritual practices and discipleship processes tha…
Evangelistic belief and behavior among Canadian congregants
With the recent surge of "religious nones" in many Western nations, there is a growing interest among some church attenders to effectively "reach" this demographic. In this article, we build on theories of strictness and social embeddedness to tackle three questions regarding evangelistic belief and behavior in Canadian Catholic, mainline Protestant, and conservative Protestant congregations. First, in what ways are evangelistic beliefs and behav…
None of the Above
This book examines the nearly one-quarter of American and Canadian adults who say they have no religion. Who are they? Why, and where, has this population grown? How do religious nones in the United States and Canada compare? What are the dynamics of being a religious none in contemporary America and Canada, and how does this willful distance from organized religion impact other aspects of daily and social life? This book turns to survey and inte…
Religious Socialization and Millennial Involvement in Organized and Digital Nonbelief Activities
Drawing on a representative survey sample of just over 2,500 young adult respondents between the ages of 18 and 35 from across the USA and Canada, our study seeks to understand who exactly takes part in organized and digital nonbelief activities. Our findings show that (a) there is a positive association between religious childhood socialization and the likelihood of being involved with organized and digital atheist, humanist and secularist activ…
The Public Work of Christmas
This multidisciplinary and transnational-focused edited volume by Pamela Klassen and Monique Scheer offers a thought-provoking and sometimes playful exploration into the ways that “people embrace, resist, and live with Christmas in multicultural spaces shaped by peculiarly Christian affordances” (10). Against the backdrop of belonging and difference, two concepts bind this book together: “religion” and “culture.” As demonstrated in a Canadian sch…
Are you listening? The relevance of what pastoral/denominational leaders and theological educators are saying about preparing leaders for ministry
What might pastoral leaders in flourishing congregations have to say to theological educators in preparing leaders for the church and visa-versa? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with over one hundred pastoral/denominational leaders across Canada, four key themes emerged: (1) Equipping the Saints; (2) Practical Discipleship Training; (3) Spiritual Formation of seminary students; and (4) Missional and Organizational Training. The article con…
Millennial Mosaic
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good. There’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation--Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information--until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald Bibby teams up with two GenX colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an up-to-d…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
Becoming a Religious None
The rise in the numbers of religious 'nones' is an almost universal phenomenon across the Western world. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which religious nones are socialized to adopt a 'no religion' position as children, as compared with disaffiliating during their teen or adult years. Related, among those religious nones who come from a religious background, we examine the timing and depth of a person's disaffiliation. This…
Church Refugees
In Church Refugees, Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope draw on nearly 100 interviews, mostly with those formerly involved in paid or voluntary church leadership, to explore the sociological reasons for why people leave the church but not God. Packard and Hope characterize those in their sample as church refugees: “Refugees are people who’ve been forced from their homes—where they’d prefer to stay .... They feel they’ve been forced to leave a place th…
Kids, You Make the Choice
What approaches do parents or those who plan to have children employ to socialize their children about religious or secular identification, beliefs, and practices? In what ways do primary and secondary socialization agents interact in this process? How might cultural narratives shape or be shaped by primary and secondary socialization activities? I address these questions by drawing on sixty interviews with two groups of Canadians – those who ide…
A Culture of Faith
A Culture of Faith is the first national study of congregations in Canada. In a nation where church involvement is waning, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson focus on Canada's most institutionally resilient stream of Christianity. They state, “While evangelical Protestants only make up about 10 percent of the population, they account for approximately one-third of the nearly 30,000 congregations in Canada” (12). Their central objective is to descri…
Marginal Religious Affiliates in Canada
Dans cette document, j'utilise les données des entrevues avec vingt et un filiales religieuse au Canada qui assistent aux offices religieux surtout pour des fêtes religieuses et les rites de passage, en demandent pourquoi ils ont cessé de fréquenter sur une base régulière, pourquoi ils continuent à fréquenter une ou deux fois par année, et expriment‐ils tout intérêt à être plus impliqués dans leur groupe religieux, et si oui, quels facteurs pourr…
Is there a "renaissance" of religion in Canada? A critical look at Bibby and beyond
Research suggests Canada is a largely secular nation. Yet Reginald Bibby (2002) has recently proposed, surprisingly, that Canada is experiencing a religious renaissance. While "private spirituality" abounds in Canada, Bibby says his claim rests on increased levels of involvement in "organized religion." We have our doubts about Bibby's new optimism, and there are two sources of our scepticism. First, the cumulative weight of his own evidence is s…
A regional approach to the management of radiation accidents
A regional approach to the management of radiation accidents. R E Linnemann, and J W ThiessenCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.6.1229 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Becoming a Religious None
The rise in the numbers of religious 'nones' is an almost universal phenomenon across the Western world. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which religious nones are socialized to adopt a 'no religion' position as children, as compared with disaffiliating during their teen or adult years. Related, among those religious nones who come from a religious background, we examine the timing and depth of a person's disaffiliation. This…
Marginal Religious Affiliates in Canada
Dans cette document, j'utilise les données des entrevues avec vingt et un filiales religieuse au Canada qui assistent aux offices religieux surtout pour des fêtes religieuses et les rites de passage, en demandent pourquoi ils ont cessé de fréquenter sur une base régulière, pourquoi ils continuent à fréquenter une ou deux fois par année, et expriment‐ils tout intérêt à être plus impliqués dans leur groupe religieux, et si oui, quels facteurs pourr…
Is there a "renaissance" of religion in Canada? A critical look at Bibby and beyond
Research suggests Canada is a largely secular nation. Yet Reginald Bibby (2002) has recently proposed, surprisingly, that Canada is experiencing a religious renaissance. While "private spirituality" abounds in Canada, Bibby says his claim rests on increased levels of involvement in "organized religion." We have our doubts about Bibby's new optimism, and there are two sources of our scepticism. First, the cumulative weight of his own evidence is s…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
Planting Seeds
Along with parents and schools, congregations are part of a "religious transmission ecosystem" with children. Using case study data with a Catholic parish in Canada, this article explores how this parish defines and approaches various roles and initiatives across the religious transmission ecosystem, along with its perceived and experienced obstacles and responses related to religious transmission. I argue that while parents are seen as the centr…
A regional approach to the management of radiation accidents
A regional approach to the management of radiation accidents. R E Linnemann, and J W ThiessenCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.6.1229 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Is there a "renaissance" of religion in Canada? A critical look at Bibby and beyond
Research suggests Canada is a largely secular nation. Yet Reginald Bibby (2002) has recently proposed, surprisingly, that Canada is experiencing a religious renaissance. While "private spirituality" abounds in Canada, Bibby says his claim rests on increased levels of involvement in "organized religion." We have our doubts about Bibby's new optimism, and there are two sources of our scepticism. First, the cumulative weight of his own evidence is s…
Marginal Religious Affiliates in Canada
Dans cette document, j'utilise les données des entrevues avec vingt et un filiales religieuse au Canada qui assistent aux offices religieux surtout pour des fêtes religieuses et les rites de passage, en demandent pourquoi ils ont cessé de fréquenter sur une base régulière, pourquoi ils continuent à fréquenter une ou deux fois par année, et expriment‐ils tout intérêt à être plus impliqués dans leur groupe religieux, et si oui, quels facteurs pourr…
Church Refugees
In Church Refugees, Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope draw on nearly 100 interviews, mostly with those formerly involved in paid or voluntary church leadership, to explore the sociological reasons for why people leave the church but not God. Packard and Hope characterize those in their sample as church refugees: “Refugees are people who’ve been forced from their homes—where they’d prefer to stay .... They feel they’ve been forced to leave a place th…
Kids, You Make the Choice
What approaches do parents or those who plan to have children employ to socialize their children about religious or secular identification, beliefs, and practices? In what ways do primary and secondary socialization agents interact in this process? How might cultural narratives shape or be shaped by primary and secondary socialization activities? I address these questions by drawing on sixty interviews with two groups of Canadians – those who ide…
A Culture of Faith
A Culture of Faith is the first national study of congregations in Canada. In a nation where church involvement is waning, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson focus on Canada's most institutionally resilient stream of Christianity. They state, “While evangelical Protestants only make up about 10 percent of the population, they account for approximately one-third of the nearly 30,000 congregations in Canada” (12). Their central objective is to descri…
Becoming a Religious None
The rise in the numbers of religious 'nones' is an almost universal phenomenon across the Western world. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which religious nones are socialized to adopt a 'no religion' position as children, as compared with disaffiliating during their teen or adult years. Related, among those religious nones who come from a religious background, we examine the timing and depth of a person's disaffiliation. This…
Are you listening? The relevance of what pastoral/denominational leaders and theological educators are saying about preparing leaders for ministry
What might pastoral leaders in flourishing congregations have to say to theological educators in preparing leaders for the church and visa-versa? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with over one hundred pastoral/denominational leaders across Canada, four key themes emerged: (1) Equipping the Saints; (2) Practical Discipleship Training; (3) Spiritual Formation of seminary students; and (4) Missional and Organizational Training. The article con…
Millennial Mosaic
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good. There’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation--Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information--until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald Bibby teams up with two GenX colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an up-to-d…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
None of the Above
This book examines the nearly one-quarter of American and Canadian adults who say they have no religion. Who are they? Why, and where, has this population grown? How do religious nones in the United States and Canada compare? What are the dynamics of being a religious none in contemporary America and Canada, and how does this willful distance from organized religion impact other aspects of daily and social life? This book turns to survey and inte…
Religious Socialization and Millennial Involvement in Organized and Digital Nonbelief Activities
Drawing on a representative survey sample of just over 2,500 young adult respondents between the ages of 18 and 35 from across the USA and Canada, our study seeks to understand who exactly takes part in organized and digital nonbelief activities. Our findings show that (a) there is a positive association between religious childhood socialization and the likelihood of being involved with organized and digital atheist, humanist and secularist activ…
The Public Work of Christmas
This multidisciplinary and transnational-focused edited volume by Pamela Klassen and Monique Scheer offers a thought-provoking and sometimes playful exploration into the ways that “people embrace, resist, and live with Christmas in multicultural spaces shaped by peculiarly Christian affordances” (10). Against the backdrop of belonging and difference, two concepts bind this book together: “religion” and “culture.” As demonstrated in a Canadian sch…
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada
This article investigates discipleship in Canada, with a focus on spiritual and discipleship practices and processes that help to facilitate spiritual growth among congregants. The study draws on survey data from over 250 Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant congregations, with over 9100 participating congregants. The data shows how those in each denominational tradition understand the spiritual practices and discipleship processes tha…
Evangelistic belief and behavior among Canadian congregants
With the recent surge of "religious nones" in many Western nations, there is a growing interest among some church attenders to effectively "reach" this demographic. In this article, we build on theories of strictness and social embeddedness to tackle three questions regarding evangelistic belief and behavior in Canadian Catholic, mainline Protestant, and conservative Protestant congregations. First, in what ways are evangelistic beliefs and behav…
Mental Health and Illness Perceptions and Experiences in Canadian Christian Congregations
Few sociological studies have explored mental health and Christian congregations. Such research is absent in Canada. Using questionnaire data with 969 Christian congregants and leaders across theological traditions in Canada, this study examines how mental health is normalized or stigmatized in Canadian congregations. We draw from symbolic interactionist theory to argue that the narratives that congregations use and the resources they draw upon t…
Planting Seeds
Along with parents and schools, congregations are part of a "religious transmission ecosystem" with children. Using case study data with a Catholic parish in Canada, this article explores how this parish defines and approaches various roles and initiatives across the religious transmission ecosystem, along with its perceived and experienced obstacles and responses related to religious transmission. I argue that while parents are seen as the centr…
What Helps Canadian Catholics Grow Spiritually in the Parish
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