After the Denominozoic: Evolution, Differentiation, Denominationalism

• Autores: Jon Bialecki
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 10, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions), págs. 193-204
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper I argue that sociological denomination theory, despite its success in describing historic denomination cycles, has limits to its contemporary use and does not match the ethnographic description of the variety of ways in which denominationalism is expressed in anthropological ethnographies of Christianity. The cause of this mismatch is placed at the feet of unilinear models of denominational evolution. In its place, a differential model of autopoietic denominational evolution is suggested, where denominations are seen as different and differing solutions to an insistent Christian problematic. The capacities of this model are explored through the Vineyard, an association of charismatic churches that originated in Southern California.