Praxis Habitus

Gerardo Marti, PhD

Sociologist

A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church (Indiana University Press, 2005/2009),

Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church (Rutgers University Press, 2008)

Worship across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation (Oxford University Press, 2012).

For more on my professional activities, see my CV.

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Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God Service (Resources)

katharinesarahmoody:

An Atheism for Lent Course is designed to be used in a group, with the group undertaking daily or weekly readings and gathering together regularly to discuss them. Peter Rollins suggests (here) that participants in an Atheism for Lent Course might wish to finish each gathering with a ritual, such as blowing out a candle or closing an open Bible.

To mark the end of the entire Course, however, you might also want to create a worship service for Good Friday or Holy Saturday to reflect on the content of the Course and to share it liturgically with others who weren’t part of the Course group. When I ran this course last year with Journey, Birmingham, for example, we created a Good Friday service called, “Forsaken by God.”

Here’s some of the blurb we used to produce and then advertise this service:

Remembering Jesus’ words on the Cross and God’s own atheism, this service will also help us to feel something of what God felt at the Crucifixion when God experienced the absence of God.

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notes on media: Some Critiques of the Network Society... (4)(pt 1 of 2)

imrinst:

I think we are now in a position to draw out some of the more obvious critiques of the use of networks and network society. Until now the focus has been on Manual Castells understanding of the concept of the network society. But things are more serious than that, for the notion of the network…

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