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Hager, Anna. "The Orthodox Issue in Jordan: The Struggle for an Arab and Orthodox Identity." Studies in World Christianity 24, no. 3 (December 2018): 212–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2018.0228.

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Scholarship on Christians in the Middle East has paid little attention to the role the Christian laity has played in defining and maintaining Christian identity and community boundaries. The so-called Orthodox issue (al-qaḍya al-urthudhuksiyya in Arabic) enhances our understanding of this role. It is an ongoing conflict within the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem between the church leadership of Greek extraction and the Arab – usually lower-ranking – clergy and laity. This article uses a case-study approach to a series of protests in Jordan in 2014 against a decision by the Patriarchate to relocate a local reform-minded cleric. Using ethnographic, historical and philological methods, I argue that through their engagement in this struggle, Greek Orthodox Jordanians assert their identity as Christians, as Arabs and as loyal Jordanians. This offers a perspective into the complex interplay between church—community relations, the issue of pastoral care, and this community's identity.

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Merkley, Paul. "The Vision of the Good Society in the Social Gospel: What, Where, and When is the Kingdom of God?" Historical Papers 22, no. 1 (April 26, 2006): 138–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030968ar.

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Abstract The Progressive years, from the 1890s to 1919, were the last period of American history during which the “national faith” was publicly proclaimed in the political arena. By the 1930s, politicians excused themselves from appearing on platforms with the ministers and the symbols of Christian faith. Protestant clergymen owed their lease on the attentions of the politicians and the voting public of those years to the intellectuals' patience with the liberal preachers ' reinterpretation of the agenda of progress in terms of the imminent, poslmillenial “Kingdom of God.” Meanwhile, the spectacular advance of premillenialism in the ranks of the laity embarrassed the clergy by exposing the gulf between the liberal-philosophic commitments of the learned leadership and the continued investments of the laity in a supernaturalist understanding of the Christian faith. The vehemence of the Social Gospelers ' denunciation of premillenialism is the best clue to their determination not to accept the reality that would henceforth govern the life of the churches: that Christian faith and doctrine no longer belonged in the general culture.

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Alexander Njue. "Interrogating Clergy Compensation and Available Resources Competition in ACK Embu Diocese in Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies 3, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 225–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjahss.v3i1.208.

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The purpose of this study was to examine resources available against clergy compensation in ACK Embu Diocese. Descriptive study was carried out in four archdeaconries and inferential statistics were obtained using SPSS. The archdeaconries that were studied were Nginda, Kagaari, Kianjokoma and Karungu. The district has a population of 278,196, with total Christian population of ACK numbering to 25,000. The research design used in this study was descriptive. Kerringer (1969) state, descriptive studies are not only restricted to the facts finding but may often results in formulation of important principles of knowledge and solution to significant problems. The study employed questionnaire as the method of data collection. The researcher targeted a population of 300 people (clergy and laity). From the target population, a sample of 70 clergy and 120 laity people was purposively selected from the four archdeaconries. After data collection, the researcher put together all raw data and analyzed it by tabling it under respective groups of respondent (clergy, laity and administration). At the end of analyses the researcher presented the results in form of tables, pie charts and bar charts to help the readers understand the analyses in a better way. Validity and reliability were tested using pretesting methods. Validity is the accuracy and meaningfulness of the inferences which are based on the research resource. The study findings indicate that the resources available for clergy remuneration are land, investments (businesses such as rental income, book shops and schools) and also quota payments.

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Osei-Tutu, Annabella, Mabel Oti-Boadi, Adjeiwa Akosua Affram, Vivian A. Dzokoto, Paapa Yaw Asante, Francis Agyei, and Abraham Kenin. "Premarital Counseling Practices among Christian and Muslim Lay Counselors in Ghana." Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications 74, no. 3 (September 23, 2020): 203–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1542305020916721.

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We examined premarital counseling services offered by Christian and Muslim lay counselors in Ghana. Participants including clergy, Islamic clerics, and laity practicing in four urban centers were interviewed. Thematic analysis showed that common issues covered include medical screening, beliefs and values, expectations, partner knowledge, roles and duties, sex, parenthood, financial management, communication, and conflicts. The findings offer important insight into religious premarital counseling in Ghana and contribute to the global literature on premarital counseling.

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Strong, Rowan. "Coronets and Altars: Aristocratic Women’s and Men’s Support for the Oxford Movement in Scotland during the 1840s." Studies in Church History 34 (1998): 391–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400013760.

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The Oxford Movement has been portrayed in its classic historiography as both clericalist and, in so far as all nineteenth-century Anglican clergy were male, a movement of masculine leadership and initiatives. This is not to deny that the movement was largely priest-led and therefore male in its leadership but ‘largely’ does not mean ‘exclusively’. By looking at the introduction of the Oxford Movement into Scotland, a neglected aspect of its dissemination can be restored, that is, the importance of the laity and of women in the spread of Tractarianism. In Scotland the initial impetus given to Oxford Movement ideals and projects lay not with the clergy but with the aristocratic laity. It also was not the preserve of men, for among its first great supporters in Scotland was a woman, Cecil Chetwynd, widow of John William Robert Kerr, seventh Marquess of Lothian. She would become one of the leading Scottish Tractarians during the 1840s until her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1851 as a consequence of the Gorham judgement.

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Alexander Njue. "Strategies Used to Mobilize Resources for Clergy Remuneration in Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Embu Diocese, of Embu County, Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Economics and Development Studies 2, no. 2 (September 30, 2020): 148–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjeds.v2i2.150.

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This study sought to investigate strategies used to mobilize resources for clergy remuneration in ACK Embu Diocese. The study was carried in Nginda, Kagaari, Kianjokoma and Karungu districts, inferential statistics were obtained using SPSS. The district has a population of 278,196, with a total Christian population of ACK numbering to 25,000. The research used descriptive research design. Kerringer (1969) state, descriptive studies are not only restricted to the facts finding Kerringer (1969) state, descriptive studies are not only restricted to the facts finding but may frequently result in the formulation of critical principles of knowledge and solution but may often result in the formulation of important principles of knowledge and solution to significant problems. The study employed a questionnaire as the method of data collection. The researcher targeted a population of 300 people (clergy and laity). From the target population, a sample of 70 clergies and 120 laity people was purposively selected from the four archdeaconries. After data collection, the researcher put together all raw data and analyzed it by tabling it under respective groups of the respondent (clergy, laity and administration). At the end of analyses, the researcher presented the results in the form of tables, pie charts and bar charts from helping the readers understand the analyses in a better way. Validity and reliability were tested using pretesting methods. Validity is the accuracy and meaningfulness of the inferences, which are based on the research resource. Quota payments was the current major strategy used to mobilize resources for clergy payment. Respondents identified various strategies for mobilizing resources as decentralizing quota payments to the parish, (60% of quota to go to the diocese and 40% to pay the clergy) and by exploiting other resources available.

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Rankin, David. "Class Distinction as a Way of Doing Church: The Early Fathers and the Christian Plebs." Vigiliae Christianae 58, no. 3 (2004): 298–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570072041718737.

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AbstractRoman notions of social and legal distinction helped to shape the approach of certain pre-Nicene Fathers to the ordering of the church. The social distinction between ordo and plebs and the legal one between honestior and humilior helped these Fathers to differentiate the particular rights and responsibilities of clergy and laity, while the concept of patronage and that of the paterfamilias helped them to define the particular role and authority of the bishop. We see this first articulated in Clement and Hermas of Rome, developed further in Tertullian of Carthage, and then find particular expression in Cyprian of Carthage.

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Yirenkyi, Kwasi. "The Role of Christian Churches in National Politics: Reflections from Laity and Clergy in Ghana." Sociology of Religion 61, no. 3 (2000): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3712582.

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Dumper, Michael. "The Christian Churches of Jerusalem in the Post-Oslo Period." Journal of Palestine Studies 31, no. 2 (January 1, 2002): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2002.31.2.51.

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This article surveys the main trends in the relations of Jerusalem's historic churches with Israel and the Palestinians since the 1967 occupation and especially since Oslo. It examines the shift from cooperation with the Israeli state in the early period to a closer identification with the Palestinian nationalist position under the impact of Israeli actions and other factors, including pressures from the laity and an increasingly "Palestinianized" higher clergy, and details the growing cooperation among the churches themselves. The article ends with an examination of the various options for a future church role, especially in the light of the churches' proposal for a "special statute" for Jerusalem, and concludes that a holy places administrative regime under Palestinian sovereignty would be more likely to protect long-term Christian interests.

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BRAUN, KATHRYN L., and ANA ZIR. "ROLES FOR THE CHURCH IN IMPROVING END-OF-LIFE CARE: PERCEPTIONS OF CHRISTIAN CLERGY AND LAITY." Death Studies 25, no. 8 (December 2001): 685–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713769897.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Christian leadership Clergy Laity"

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Jones, William H. "Developing leadership for evangelism and discipleship a proposed Master of Arts degree for Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Sallee, Lawrence R. "Training Russian lay pastors important issues as identified by Russian church planters /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Bernard, John G. "Training church planters of Vietnam Christian Mission." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Hobson, Steven. "Church based leadership training factors contributing to the development of spiritual authority in Filipino male leaders." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Wiese, Ronald J. "An exegetical, historical and practical study of New Testament terms for pastor and people at Trinity Lutheran Church, Memphis, Tennessee." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Basteyns, Margaret M. Wildeman. "Canon 517 [par.] 2 and the lay pastoral administrator some canonical considerations /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Walker, J. H. "Equipping the laity for Christian leadership." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Hardy, Angela M. "Shared leadership: clergy and laity in the small rural church." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2000. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14670.

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The lack of shared leadership between clergy and laity presents a challenge to the small rural church. A model of ministry for engaging the pastor and laity of a small membership rural church in educational, spiritual, and action experiences to help them maximize their human potential as co-laborers in God's vineyard has been developed in this dissertation study. Its purpose is to teach and model an approach to helping clergy, lay leaders and members of the congregation learn to share leadership and work together in order to change the way people think and behave in the areas of worship, mission and evangelism. The approach used includes the engagement of a church administrative council in a nine week Bible study of selected scriptures to help them gain an understanding of the nature and mission of the church as well as the role of clergy and laity in accomplishing that mission. At varying times in the progression of the study sessions, members of the administrative council are requested to begin modeling certain specified behaviors. Questionnaires are used at specified intervals during the ministry project to gauge progress and provide feedback for follow-up in succeeding sessions as well as evaluation of the project. This model of ministry is simple enough for any small congregation to adopt and powerful enough to be profitable. Yet, it is adaptable for use in any congregation where the lay leadership can be intimately involved with the congregation.

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Washington, Gwendolyn A. "Faith Healing Ministry: a Christian education model for clergy and laity." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2008. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2646.

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The purpose of this project was to begin an intentional effort to retrieve the ministry of faith healing through using a Christian education model to educate/train clergy and laity. The model was comprised of Sacred Scripture, church tradition, individuals from the Christian community experiences, and conversation voices from theologians, former and contemporaries; including medical scientists. The model was presented in the manual titled, Faith Healing Ministry: A Christian Education Model for Clergy and Laity. The premise is that many church leaders fail to model the ministry of Jesus in liberating folk who are ill within their congregations. Christian education is necessary to retrieve the ministry of faith healing with integrity and accountability because of fear and suspicion due to deception and fraudulent acts. In other words, some in the pastoral and lay leadership are fearful to engage in faith healing because of controversy due to misuse of the gifts and abuse of recipients in that area of ministry. One way to change negative attitudes about the ministry of faith healing is through Christian education. Seminars were conducted over a period of six weeks with a group participation of sixteen clergy and laity who completed questionnaires concerning their knowledge of and involvement in faith healing. The seminar sessions were taught by the researcher and the author of the manual. One theme addressed consistently: Faith healing should be an intentional ministry of the Christian church to bring holistic well-being and soundness to the congregants. The church reformers have influenced theologians and church leaders for centuries taking the theoretical position that the gifts and miracles ceased being used in the church between the first and third century. The researcher demonstrated the influence their theory has had on some Protestant denominations in regards to the lack of faith healing practiced even in our contemporary society. The assumption is, the group that participated in the project are able to understand theoretical positions taken by some and can now take a stance to support their beliefs and values in regards to faith healing. The Sacred Scriptures, some Christian traditions, former and contemporary theologians, as well as physicians and scientists demonstrates evidence of how faith and prayer works in the healing process of physical illness. The model for Christian education and training regarding faith healing will be ongoing and a component will be added to include how to stay healthy.

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Childers, John M. "Equipping members to formulate a personal leadership strategy at First Baptist Church of Vienna, Georgia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Books on the topic "Christian leadership Clergy Laity"

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Leadership teams: Clergy and lay leadership in the local church. Cambridge: Grove, 1999.

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Burt, Steven E. Activating leadership in the small church: Clergy and laity working together. Edited by Walrath Douglas Alan 1933-. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1988.

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Weems, Lovett H. Pastoral leadership: Admired values and essential skills identified by United Methodist laity. Dayton, Ohio: General Council on Ministries, 1993.

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Images of leadership and authority for the church: Biblical principles and secular models. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.

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Thils, Gustave. Les laïcs et l'enjeu des temps "post-modernes": Sécularité, modernité, post-modernité : une intra-ecclésialité "multiforme", relation clercs-laïcs "équilibrée", la sainteté "dans et par"le siècle. Louvain-la-Neuve: Publications de la Faculté de théologie, 1988.

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Rudiger, Andreas. Die Leitungs- und Machtfrage in der katholischen Kirche: Dogmatische Erwägungen zur amtlichen Gemeindeleitung (munus regendi) und zur heiligen Vollmacht (sacra potestas) im Spiegel der Gewaltenkonzeption Klaus Mörsdorfs. Buttenwiesen: Stella Maris, 2002.

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Gillies, Susan E. Empowering laity, engaging leaders: Tapping the root for ministry. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2012.

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Calivas, Alkiviadis C. Church, clergy, laity, and the spiritual life. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2013.

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Toler, Stan. The people principle: Transforming laypersons into leaders. Kansas City, Mo: Beacon Hill Press, 1997.

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Spahn, Christina A. Leadership: Vision and voice. Villa Maria, PA: Center for Learning, 2004.

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Kempers, Bram. "Clergy and Laity Viewing Both Sides of Painted Altarpieces in Rome, Siena, San Sepolcro and Perugia." In Monuments & Memory: Christian Cult Buildings and Constructions of the Past, 269–78. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.acsha-eb.4.2018022.

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Huddie, Paul. "Ireland’s religious response." In The Crimean War and Irish Society, 92–119. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382547.003.0005.

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This chapter will highlight how the various Christian denominations in Ireland reacted to the Crimean War, and how, unlike the Indian Mutiny and Boer War, it stimulated a substantial, although not general and still quite brief, resurgence of inter-denominational cooperation and friendly relations. It will be shown that all Irish denominations, with the exception of the Quakers, supported the war against Russia and thus focussed their attention and vehemence upon the external enemy instead of each other, and that this was part of a wider Christian militarism within the United Kingdom at the time. This chapter will show that all the pro-war denominations viewed the conflict as just, necessary and even providential. This support for the war will be shown to have been manifest by the leadership, clergy and laity of all the churches through sermons, prayers, pamphlets, and newspapers and journal editorials, and through the provision of chaplains and nursing nuns to the armed forces.

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"Lay leadership, establishment crisis and the disdain of the clergy." In The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism, 131. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203166505-64.

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Wijngaards, John. "Women Deacons in Ancient Christian Communities." In Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity, 195–210. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867067.003.0011.

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This chapter considers ‘Women Deacons in Ancient Christian Communities: Leadership and Ordination’. Women deacons are widely attested in the Greek-speaking Catholic East during the first millennium. Ancient rites that have been preserved show that the ordination of women deacons was truly ‘sacramental’, just as that of male deacons. Their role consisted in instructing and baptizing female catechumens, guiding women at Sunday worship, taking communion to the sick, and ministering at funeral services. They belonged to the clergy in virtually every parish. They enjoyed more or less the same legal status as male deacons. As time passed, however, the female diaconate was relinquished, partly because of the diminishing of adult baptisms, partly on account of growing anxiety about female clergy possibly polluting the altar through menstruation.

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"Christian Palestinian communities in Israel: tensions between laity, clergy and state." In Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine, 296–322. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203137925-21.

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George, Susan Ella. "21st Century Christian." In Religion and Technology in the 21st Century, 106–28. IGI Global, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-714-0.ch006.

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This chapter makes a focus on in the 21st century. We start with a focus on the ideology that was Christendom, tracing its origins, rise, and decline, in order to appreciate the present context. We find that Christendom represented a political alliance between church and state that, in many ways, compromised the church, and represented a secular invasion into it. The persecutions of the early church were abated, although the influences of the Roman Empire and imperial court remain to this day in church buildings, in the distinction of clergy from laity, in the passive nature of worship, and in many other ways. In accordance with those theologians who find religion to be a “human construction,” Christianity in Christendom is, in many ways, the ultimate defiance, inhibiting both “faith” and God’s self-revelation.

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Maloy, Rebecca. "Liturgy, Patristic Learning, and Christian Formation." In Songs of Sacrifice, 42–69. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190071530.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the role of liturgy and chant in the bishops’ project of cultural renewal, from the perspectives of both production and reception. The author looks to the textual culture of Visigothic Iberia for clues as to why the compilers of chants reworked scripture in particular ways, exploring how scripture and patristic texts were read, understood, and disseminated by members of the clerical elite who were likely to have produced the chants. The focus then turns to Christian education and formation in Visigothic Iberia, yielding insight into the tools that monks, clergy, and laity are likely to have brought to the understanding of these chants.

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Casey, Patricia. "The people in the pews: Silent and betrayed." In Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526101068.003.0012.

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Patricia Casey’s chapter argues that up until recently there was no tradition of a questioning laity, or indeed, clergy, in the Irish Church. Centuries of persecution had brought priests and laity closer, even though they were never viewed as equals. A coalescence of events at home and abroad in the form of the sexual revolution, the rise of Communism, the reforms of Vatican II, created a Western Church where personal choice took precedence over the dictates of Rome. In Ireland, certain myths such as Catholic guilt, the links between celibacy and paedophilia, the death of God, the delusional nature of all religions, began to gain traction. The clerical abuse scandals served to reinforce hostility towards the Church and to add weight to the aforementioned myths, which has resulted in a society that is becoming increasingly impervious to the Word of God. Casey sees the need for Irish people to become educated about their faith so as to be in a position to speak to a secular audience and to find space for their Christian faith.

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Genet, Jean-Philippe. "Language and Political Communication in France and England (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)." In Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720038_ch03.

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Symbolic power depends on the efficiency with which the values of any dominant group are transmitted to society at large. In the eleventh century, the Latin medieval Church initiated a fundamental transformation of the Western European symbolic communication system. In France and England, the symbolic power of the Gregorian Church was derived from the superiority of the spiritual power of the papacy. Its armies of monks and priests had to convince the members of the ecclesia (the Christian society) of the necessity to embark on the road to individual salvation under the guidance of the Church, imposing a new division between clergy and laity. Yet, whereas clericus and litteratus had earlier been synonymous, many lay people were now able to read and write. If the Church had developed its own administration and bureaucracy, the Gregorian educational and cultural revolution offered the same opportunity to cities and states, which thus acquired the capacity to govern by the written word. As the laity entered into an age of literacy, the foundations were laid for the genesis of a new type of state.

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Butler, Melvin L. "The Old-Time Way." In Island Gospel, 99–124. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042904.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on the ways in which gospel music, tradition and testimony, along with feelings of nostalgia, shape modern-day religious and cultural identities among Jamaican Pentecostals on the island and abroad. As traditional church leaders consider “contemporary gospel” music a threat to the established sound ideal of Pentecostal worship, generational tensions have become more acute. This chapter examines the contested role of traditional and contemporary repertories as more progressive leadership has assumed control of one of Jamaica's prominent Pentecostal organizations. It also includes the testimonies of five Pentecostals who describe their conversion experiences and subsequent efforts to lead holy lifestyles. Expressions of nostalgia have surfaced during a transitional moment within the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World in Jamaica, as younger clergy and laity move the organization further from the “old-time” way and closer to a North American model of practice.

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