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Fathers of the Victorians : the age of Wilberforce
\"Mr Brown has written an assessment of the Evangelical revival in the Church of England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He makes a number of important points about the Evangelicals: who they were, what they tried to do, how they tried to do it, and what success they had. He establishes how much they made the later Victorian age what it was and also suggests how the movement came to lose its hold on the foremost minds of the age in the third generation.
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Singing the congregation : how contemporary worship music forms evangelical community
Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or \"modes of congregating\". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations--Singing the Congregation reinvigorates the analytic categories of \"congregation\" and \"congregational music.\" Drawing from theoretical models in ethnomusicology and congregational studies, Singing the Congregation reconceives the congregation as a fluid, contingent social constellation that is actively performed into being through communal practice--in this case, the musically-structured participatory activity known as \"worship.\" \"Congregational music-making\" is thereby recast as a practice capable of weaving together a religious community both inside and outside local institutional churches. Congregational music-making is not only a means of expressing local concerns and constituting the local religious community; it is also a powerful way to identify with far-flung individuals, institutions, and networks that comprise this global religious community. The interactions among the congregations reveal widespread conflicts over religious authority, carrying far-ranging implications for how evangelicals position themselves relative to other groups in North America and beyond. -- $c Publisher's description.
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Evangelical Third Place cafés that Facilitate Gospel Conversations
For many years, cafés have been renowned for being places of community connectivity and conversation. This research was focussed on two West Midland cafés run by evangelical Christians whose joint objectives were to enhance their local sense of community, whilst also seeking opportunities to share their Christian faith. I wanted to understand to what extent the cafés achieved these objectives, yet additionally, I wanted to understand what sort of gathered community each café created, as the hosts and patrons interacted, particularly around matters of faith. Fieldwork was conducted over a period of fifteen months between September 2018 and February 2020, using observations during my frequent visits to the cafés, and semi-structured interviews with the café managers, plus a selection of the café hosts and patrons. This research found that both evangelical cafés were important hubs of social capital that also created a platform for faith-sharing with a broad range of people by meeting a need for personal and community connectivity. Additionally, the cafés provided an environment where psychological barriers between the evangelical hosts and local patrons, be they imagined or real, were diluted as the cafés become authentic third place communities. The fieldwork also revealed that the physical layout of the cafés and faith-based literature within them, encouraged faith-based discussions and enquiry, with the cafés becoming places of faith journey and exploration. The fieldwork, specifically in one of the cafés, revealed it to be a gathered faith community, a new locus of spirituality, which was characterised by prayer, Biblebased discussion, social connection and conversations centred around Jesus. Theologically, the research findings and insights provide an alternative approach to community mission, compared to the more traditional approaches adopted by some within the evangelical tradition, where \"proclamation\" over \"dialogue\", and \"crisis conversion\" over faith journey is preferred.
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