Strhan, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-0875-1197 (2013) The metropolis and evangelical life:coherence and fragmentation in the 'lost city of London'. Religion. pp. 331-352. ISSN 1096-1151
Abstract
This article examines the interplay of different processes of cultural and subjective fragmentation experienced by conservative evangelical Anglicans, based on an ethnographic study of a congregation in central London. The author focuses on the evangelistic speaking practices of members of this church to explore how individuals negotiate contradictory norms of interaction as they move through different city spaces, and considers their response to tensions created by the demands of their workplace and their religious lives. Drawing on Georg Simmel's 'The Metropolis and Mental Life', the author argues that their faith provides a sense of coherence and unity that responds to experiences of cultural fragmentation characteristic of everyday life in the city, while simultaneously leading to a specific consciousness of moral fragmentation that is inherent to conservative evangelicalism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | city,class,ethics,evangelicalism,practice,Simmel,subjectivity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2019 08:10 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 01:20 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2013.798164 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0048721X.2013.798164 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147821 |
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