Becoming a God hunter towards conversion in a Brooklyn tongue-speaking church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2318917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Marina (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, corresponding author), Peter J Marina (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-92 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0037768615618826 |
| OpenAlex | W2385562238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Based on over four years of ethnographic research in an Afro-Caribbean Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, this article focuses on the process of becoming a religious seeker, or what I call a God hunter, towards conversion to a Pentecostal tongue-speaking church. Becoming a God hunter requires knowing the causes that explain religious seekership, the invariable sequence of interrelated events that are part of the process. It also requires gaining insight into motives at each stage in the process where potential converts arrive at their final decision to search for a religious group. This requires moving beyond a single set of essential variables, like crisis, or providing normative explanations to the motivation to become a religious seeker. Rather, this work explains the series of steps in a sequence of events that have a long and complex story in which individuals arrive at a point of convergence and decide to embark on a religious search. This article challenges the concept of crisis, used in both old and new scholarly models, to explain why someone decides to become a religious seeker. Final attention is given to the relevancy of continued academic debates on whether active or passive forces drive these individual decisions towards seekership
Convergence (economics · Economics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Normative · Political science · Process (computing · Religious conversion · Sequence (biology · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
A far glory
Analytic Induction
Studying Global Pentecostalism
Social Structure and Anomie
Secularization, R.I.P
Outsiders
Moral, Believing Animals
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Tricks of the Trade
The Sociology of Conversion
Attachment Theory and Religious Conversions
Doomsday Cult
Accounting for Conversion
Social Structure and Anomie
Becoming a World-Saver
Other People's Money
The Social Context of Conversion to a Black Religious Sect
A Field Perspective of Religious Conversion
Religious Conversion as a Personal and Collective Accomplishment
Contacts, Cognitions, and Conversion
Analytic Induction Revisited
Spiritual Conversion
Understanding Religious Conversion
Conversion Motifs
Conversion or Commitment? A Reassessment of the Snow and Machalek Approach to the Study of Conversion
Reassessing Conventional Approaches to Conversion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |