GOLDSTEIN_f1_i-x

In this chapter we focus in particular on speaking in tongues, praise and prophecy as local orders of practice. Following Garfin ...

have a central deity, do not appear to be religions at all. Weber classified these forms of practice as “magic.” From Durkheim’s ...

Practices and Intelligibility: Inadequacy of Rules and Beliefs Although it continues to be acceptable to explain social order an ...

analysis) on action. This has the negative consequence of treating individual motivation and institutional belief and value as t ...

social forms, such as religion, obscuring the relationship between these social forms and the societies in which they are found, ...

one could master the same beliefs, have the appropriate motives, and even have the corresponding belief experiences at both chur ...

But, the study of social order and intelligibility are generally approached as though the beliefs were constitutive of practices ...

tices. They do not order – nor is their purpose to order – the doing of prac- tices. This explains their inadequacy, and in so d ...

they believe that the Holy Spirit works through people in a social context, in an orderly way, and that the details of that cont ...

to be done. When these expectations are not met, the religious expressions are not accepted as legitimate. Our analysis shows no ...

a controlled disorder.” This “controlled disorder” does not take a traditional ritual form, however. Rather, it manifests itself ...

members may view the entirety of the Bible as a book of rules that prescribe beliefs, attitudes and behaviors for all situations ...

Analysis of the worship services focused on distinguishing essential ele- ments of the social process of the religious service i ...

churches also produced videotapes for sale). Six of the audio tapes were tran- scribed in sound-by-sound detail. Seven pastors w ...

The second step in the believer ’s relationship with the Holy Spirit, Spiritual baptism, can either be simultaneous with Spiritu ...

heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came ...

of prophecy. At this point in the Scriptures, a higher value is placed on inter- pretation than on the tongues themselves, becau ...

Therefore, messages that are interpreted as unloving cannot be perceived as coming from God. Spiritual gifts are to uplift the c ...

congregations that expectations regarding local orders of practice develop. What is to be considered orderly? When is the approp ...

vice began, at the Urban Church. Once accepted, pastors at both churches reiterated and/or interpreted spiritual messages, holdi ...