High on GodPub Date : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0011
J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly
{"title":"Desire for Deliverance","authors":"J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we identify how megachurches meet attendees’ desire for deliverance. The preaching and music produce high levels of emotional energy that need to be released. In particular, altar calls and healing services are the emotional peaks of the church service, following the worship singing and sermons. These moments allow attendees to release the emotional energy that has built up from the service and in their lives. These are collective experiences in which individuals transform and watch others do the same. In response to the experience of deliverance, individuals are asked to serve their church and communities as an expression of their faith.","PeriodicalId":186590,"journal":{"name":"High on God","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121256081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
High on GodPub Date : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0014
J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly
{"title":"Dissecting Megachurch Scandals","authors":"J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the dark side of megachurches by quantifying and theorizing megachurch scandals. We collected data on megachurch scandals and identified fifty-six such scandals discussed in forty-eight online newspaper articles for the years 2006 to 2017. Most of the scandals that we studied came from the malfeasance of megachurch senior pastors, and the vast majority were sexual in nature. The charismatic bond that megachurch pastors form with their attendees and the power that stems from it can be used for their own personal gain. We theorize a form of soft patriarchalism as a way to name this power differential. We contend that the model of soft patriarchalism gives power to men and creates opportunities for them to manipulate and ruin the lives of women under their care. These scandals often lead to the implosion of megachurches, where the charismatic bond between the pastor and congregation is irrevocably broken.","PeriodicalId":186590,"journal":{"name":"High on God","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130689335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
High on GodPub Date : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0002
J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly
{"title":"The Problem of Cooperation and Homo Duplex","authors":"J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are homo duplex—they are both individual and social—and they struggle with the coexistence and/or integration of these two sides to their human nature. Given this, what encourages cooperation among strangers? Our claim is that religion is the most effective method of facilitating human cooperation and that megachurches are particularly successful at doing so. Megachurches provide attendees with rituals and opportunities to discipline and increase self-control, selfless behavior, and cooperation. At the same time, they focus on the other side of homo duplex—the need to exert the ego—which is evident in how they lift the individual and nurture each person’s gifts and talents.","PeriodicalId":186590,"journal":{"name":"High on God","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
High on GodPub Date : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0013
J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly
{"title":"Desire to Re-member","authors":"J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we show how megachurches satisfy attendees’ desire to belong in a community of like-minded others. We describe the process by which attendees go from being spectators to being active members, and the key role that small groups play in this process. Small groups connect attendees to others, allow them to feel accepted, make a large church feel small, and provide them with emotional energy in between weekend services. Megachurches offer a wide variety of small group options in an effort to meet their attendees’ every need, which include small groups focusing on marriage that become a critical factor in creating what we call megachurch marriage culture.","PeriodicalId":186590,"journal":{"name":"High on God","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130696061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
High on GodPub Date : 2020-04-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0007
J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly
{"title":"The Micro-sociology of Interaction Rituals within Megachurches","authors":"J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the paradigm of micro-sociology using Randall Collins’s work on interaction ritual chains to understand how emotional energy is produced in megachurches. We argue that individuals are motivated to participate in megachurches through a process of interaction ritual chains that produce and evoke deep desires satisfied through emotional energy, which attracts and keeps so many coming to megachurches. We describe Collins’s ingredients for successful rituals (co-presence, a shared mood, a mutual focus of attention, and barriers to outsiders) and how megachurches meet or transform these ingredients for their purposes. As we narrate Collins’s interactive ritual structure, we briefly outline the ways in which the six desires, described in Chapter 3, are met in a cyclical manner within megachurches. We show how they are evoked and addressed in overlapping and synchronic ways, which reinforces the power of the collective effervescence of these churches.","PeriodicalId":186590,"journal":{"name":"High on God","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126505683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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