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Alleluia

An Ethnographic Study
  • ISBN-13: 9781498546638
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Don Swenson
  • Price: AUD $212.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2018
  • Format: Hardback 190 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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The Alleluia Community is a unique Christian community of over three hundred committed charismatic Christians in Augusta, Georgia, who live a covenant and ecumenical lifestyle. Emerging from the Charismatic Renewal Movement of the 1960s, members of Alleluia have maintained a lively charismatic dimension of the Christian tradition with a willingness to make a life-time covenant commitment to each other. Since 1973, this group of people has exhibited heroic virtue, self-sacrifice, humility, deference for one another, and service to others outside their boundaries. They claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Their leaders lead with a strong sense of service and Christian love and a willingness to lay down their own agendas. A major feature of these covenant makers is that they strive for daily Christian unity while being committed to one of the twelve-plus various denominations and fellowships. Swenson had the opportunity of living among these people for twenty months. During this time, he used a mixed method approach involving over one hundred interviews and three hundred instruments to create both qualitative and quantitative measures of the lives of these people. To structure their story, he used the dilemmas of the institutionalization of religion from the scholarship of Thomas O'Dea and secularization theory. The data gathered give abundant evidence that these Alleluia faithful have substantively resisted the secular influence so common in Western culture.
Introduction: The Conceptual Framework, Historical Background, and Methodology 1. The Fundamental Dilemma: Alleluia and Its Secular Environment 2. The Dilemma of Mixed Motivation: A Case Study of the Elders of the Alleluia Community 3. The Symbolic Dilemma: Ritual Manifested in Alleluia 4. The Dilemma of Administrative Order: Gender Roles in Alleluia 5. The Dilemma of Delimitation: A Study of Ethics within the Alleluia Community 6. The Dilemma of Power: A Study of Conversion in Alleluia 7. The Interpretative Dilemma: An Investigation of Belief Systems in Alleluia Conclusion
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