Conservative Protestantism and the World Order
The Faith Movement in the United States and Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2590897 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Coleman (0000-0001-7003-4327, Durham University, corresponding author), Simon Coleman |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 353 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3711779 |
| OpenAlex | W1977849429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article discusses the extent to which globalization theory can be used to interpret the recent revival and expansion of conservative Protestantism in western societies. By focussing on the diffusion of “Faith” ideology (the Prosperity Gospel) from the United States to the “Word of Life” Bible center in Sweden, I show how the Swedish group acts as a kind of transnational cultural broker, managing a flow of meaning between two very different politicoreligious contexts. I argue that Word of Life seeks to articulate its identity in both local and global terms, simultaneously asserting the existence of an organic unity between religious and political authority in its host country and accommodating to a much wider vision of a divinely sanctioned world order. In the process, it produces a conservative Protestant interpretation of the changing place of Sweden in the global order of nation-states
Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Faith · Globalization · Gospel · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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The Eternal Return of Conversion
Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia
Scripture Study as Normal Science
Possession and Confession
Anxious Transcendence
Globalisation of Pentecostalism in Africa
The 'Plain' and the 'Positive
Winning Ways
Dramatising the 'Health and Wealth Gospel'
Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Forgetting Conversion
The Effectiveness of Ritual
Materializing the Self
Renewable Icons
The Faith of Black Politics
Religious Conviction Shaped and Maintained by Narration
Evangelicalism Meets the Continental Divide
Charismatic Christianity and the Dilemmas of Globalization
Words as Things
Prosperity Beliefs and Value Orientations
What Kind of Christian Are You? Religious Ideologies and Political Attitudes
Waiting for the Day
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,84 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2019 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |