Key Patterns Emerging in Fieldwork

Key Patterns Emerging in Fieldwork

1. Ritual and symbol

   • Secular
     • Tea, coffee and snacks after service
       • Food sharing/ COMMENSALITY
         • Kinship
       • English pastime
         • Identity/ethnicity
   • Religious
     • Songs,Hymns, prayer, mediation
       • Bloch,M :Formalisation of Language
         • Ambiguity and flexibility of ritual
     • Eucharist/Holy Communion
       • Cannibalism (metaphorical)
       • Food sharing/COMMENSALITY
         • Kinship

2. Inclusivity

   • History of persecution
   • Exchanging gifts of hospitality
   • Participation
   • Religious Kinship
     • God as father
     • Jesus Christ as Son
     • Church as famil;y

3. Dissent, Liberlaism and Candour

   • Progressive /Liberal Christianity
     • Social activism and Humanitarianism
       • LGBT rights, gender equality
     • What is Christianity?

4. Democracy and autonomy

   • Pluralism of ideas
     • Free enquiry, Biblical inerrancy
     • ORTHOPRAXY VS. ORTHODOXY
   • Pluralism of religion
     • Two churches situated in one site
   • Pastors role
     • Shifting power dynamics
   • Politics of religion

5. Aging congregation

   • Secularization THESIS (RIP STARK

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