Evangelical Christian Crisis Responses to Same-Sex Sex Scandals

Spaulding, Cylor

doi:10.1080/15348423.2018.1463717

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“…Our findings related to SCCT furthers research by Spaulding (2018) and Morehouse and Lemon (2023) who argue that categories, or subcategories, might be added to SCCT relating to spiritual, religious or emotional harm. Specifically, Spaulding (2018) argued for the need to expand SCCT to include a category of organizational misdeeds that result in spiritual or emotional harm.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

“…When applying SCCT to a religious crisis, Spaulding (2018) identified four preventable crisis cases with evangelical pastors, including two crises that involved rumours and two crises that featured supporting evidence of the accusations against the pastors.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Results of their qualitative case study analysis revealed that pastors who utilized the recommended postcrisis communication strategy according to the type of crisis they faced in SCCT experienced more positive outcomes compared to pastors who did not utilize the recommended postcrisis communication strategies according to SCCT. Positive outcomes include factors like maintaining their jobs and repairing their reputations (Spaulding, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, scholars have turned attention towards crises within evangelical religious organizations. Notably, Spaulding (2018) and Morehouse and Austin (2022) applied Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) to examine crises within evangelical religious organizations. SCCT is a crisis communication theory that categorizes crises according to crisis history, attribution of blame for the crisis and perceived crisis responsibility (Coombs, 2007(Coombs, , 2017.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Few scholars have examined crises within religious organizations, with much of the focus on the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis (Barth, 2010; Boys, 2009; Maier, 2005; Maier & Crist, 2017; Morehouse, 2020), or preventable crises caused by prominent evangelical pastors (Morehouse & Austin, 2022; Morehouse & Lemon, 2023; Spaulding, 2018). For instance, Maier and Crist (2017) and Dixon (2004) examined the postcrisis response strategies of religious leaders within the Catholic Church following revelations that leaders within the Church sexually abused children for decades.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factionalism and schisms: Analyzing network structure and characteristics of online opinion leaders in an international religious crisis

Morehouse,

Boatwright

2023

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This study addresses gaps in the crisis communication literature by examining the role and influence of online opinion leaders in an overlooked type of crisis—organizational factionalism and schisms. This study examined network attributes and characteristics of online opinion leaders during an international religious crisis by conducting a social network analysis of 27,710 posts on Twitter concerning the impending schism within the United Methodist Church. By bridging research on religious crises, organizational factions and schisms, and online opinion leadership in the public relations literature, our results advance theorizing in crisis communication, particularly for Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT). Results reveal online opinion leaders are influential entities and sources of information regarding the crisis, and are not homogeneous in their opinions, thus reflecting the ideological diversity present within factionalism crises. This study confirms and advances previous research by arguing that traditional methods of categorizing crises according to SCCT should not be solely relied on for factionalism and organizational schisms.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%