{"product_id":"worship-and-social-engagement-in-urban-aboriginal-led-australian-pentecostal-congregations-re-imagining-identity-in-the-spirit-9789004400252","title":"Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  List of Abbreviations    Part 1  Prelude: A Short Political History of Australia  Introduction to the Research   1 Religion-as-Practiced   2 Introduction to Australian National Identit(ies) Today   3 Malcolm Calley and the Bundjalung Pentecostals   4 Australian Pentecostal Religiosity   5 Disciplinary Location   6 Overview of the Research  1 Learning to Yarn   1.1 Researching Colonized Peoples    1.2 My Location: Stumbling Towards Songlines   1.3 Agency and Freedom: The Right to Choose Christianity   1.4 Participation as a Value of International Development Research   1.5 “Yarning”   1.6 The Affective Encounter in Yarning   1.7 Concluding the Yarns  2 A “Corroboree” of Literature   2.1 Dialoguing with the Anthropological Resources   2.2 Dialoguing with Development Resources   2.3 Dialoguing with Theological Resources   2.4 The Intersections: Pentecostalism, Poverty, and Development   2.5 Concluding The Dancing Circle  3 Methodology   3.1 Theoretical Foundations: IRCT   3.2 Theoretical Foundations: An Appreciative Lens   3.3 The Research Questions and Propositions\/Hypothesis   3.4 Method: Ethnographic Research   3.5 Method: Interviews   3.6 Data Analysis: Interviews   3.7 Research Assumptions and Delimiters   3.8 Conclusions    Part 2: Research Findings  4 The Aboriginal Pentecostal Network   4.1 The Significance of Oral History   4.2 Denominational Affiliation   4.3 The Three Congregations and Their Leaders   4.4 Finding 1: The Urban Australian Pentecostal Network   4.5 IRCT and Historical Themes   4.6 Conclusions  5 “There’s a Christian Welcome here”: Worship Practices   5.1 Analyzing a Congregation as an Interaction Ritual Chain   5.2 Participant Attitudes Towards Self Determination and Culture   5.3 Finding 2: Welcome or Inclusion, and Yarning   5.4 IRCT and Cultural Strategies in Worship Practice   5.5 Ganggalah Cultural Strategy   5.6 POTS Cultural Strategy   5.7 Eagle Rock Cultural Strategy   5.8 Conclusions on Worship Practices  6 Narrating the Self and the Collective   6.1 Finding 3a: Affective Spirit Encounter Transforms the Self   6.2 Finding 3b: Finding Symbols from Group Narrative   6.3 IRCT and Forming Narrative Theologies   6.4 Conclusions  7 Individual Well-being and Worship   7.1 Finding 4: Worship Improves Self-Reported Well-being   7.2 IRCT and Individual Well-being   7.3 Conclusions regarding Individual Outcomes  8 Social Engagement Practices   8.1 Finding 5: Social Engagement Programs   8.2 Participant Attitudes towards Evangelism and Social Justice   8.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Connections   8.4 Finding 6: Missional Strategies for Social Engagement Programs   8.5 IRCT and Social Engagement   8.6 Conclusions on Social Engagement Practices  9 Linking Worship and Social Engagement   9.1 Linking Worship and Social Engagement Practices   9.2 Congregations as Interaction Ritual Chains   9.3 Conclusions about Social Engagement    Part 3  10 Reflecting on Interaction Ritual Chain Theory   10.1 Reflecting upon IRCT   10.2 Organizational Leaders as Symbols   10.3 Congregations as Interaction Ritual Chains   10.4 Limitations on the Research   10.5 Conclusion  11 Final Conclusions   11.1 Summary of the Research and Findings   11.2 Conclusions   11.3 Contributions of this Study   11.4 Recommendations to Researchers   11.5 Concluding the Research  Appendix A Interview Questions  Appendix B Key Church Leader Questions  Appendix C Experience of the Spirit    Glossary  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210775880023,"sku":"9789004400252","price":68.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/worship-and-social-engagement-in-urban-aboriginal-led-australian-pentecostal-congregations-re-imagining-identity-in-the-spirit-9789004400252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}