New Interdisciplinary Spaces of Religions and Beliefs in Contemporary Thought and Practice: An Analysis

Baker, Christopher T. H.; Dinham, Adam

doi:10.3390/rel8020016

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“…Post-secularisation (Baker 2019;Beaumont and Eder 2019;McClymont 2019) and the resurgence/visibility of religion (Baker and Dinham 2017;Martínez-Ariño 2019) created significant spatial manifestations in cities around the globe (Hancock and Srinivas 2008;Holloway and Valins 2002;Luz 2015;Wilford 2012). In the UK since 1980, the emergence of 7,000 new churches created significant 'spatial impacts/challenges' (Greed 2016a).…”

Section: Religion-planning Nexusmentioning

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Religion, neoliberalism, planning: an analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’

Boland

McKay

Sturm

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Religion, State and Society

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This article adds to and develops extant work on the comparatively under-explored but important link between religion, neoliberalism, and planning. It is noticeable that mega/giga-churches are recalibrating the religious and physical landscapes of cities around the world; in so doing they raise important implications for professional planners. We focus on Green Pastures Church in Northern Ireland. The church has initiated a significant urban development project that represents something much more than just another new church; indeed, it has been described as a 'superchurch'. The main body of this article focuses on the three separate plans submitted to the local authority, and the attendant contentious local planning issues. Existing research exposes the problematic impact of planning decisions on religious sites for certain religious communities. Our contribution to knowledge reveals new insights concerning the more positive and supportive relationship between planning and religion. We end this article by offering insights into broader debates on the public presence of religion and how it is regulated in the contemporary city.

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Section: Religion-planning Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religion, neoliberalism, planning: an analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’

Boland

McKay

Sturm

et al. 2021

Religion, State and Society

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“…A 'theological turn' in the broader field of organisation and management scholarship has only recently recognised religion's significance in organisational life (Baker and Dinham 2017;Dyck 2014;Herzog et al 2020;Tracey et al 2014). Scholars now contend that religious faith and values underpin both economic behaviour (McVea and Naughton 2021;Smith et al , 2021 and social action directed at alleviating poverty and inequality (e.g., Greenwood et al 2010;Gümüsay 2020;Zhao and Lounsbury 2016).…”

Section: An Institutional Logic Of Religionmentioning

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“…Religion is a group phenomenon involving group norms that specify beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviours relating to both sacred and secular aspects of life, which are integrated and imbued with meaning by an ideological framework and worldview. (Hogg et al 2010, p. 73) Until recently, religion and its expression in organisational life have received less scholarly attention from organisation and management scholars than the market and community institutional orders (Baker and Dinham 2017;Dyck 2014;Herzog et al 2020;Tracey et al 2014). Religion is unique among the societal-level institutional orders since religion influences the market, corporation, professional, state, family and community (or social welfare) orders and the logics that arise from them (Thornton et al 2012).…”

Section: An Institutional Logic Of Religionmentioning

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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Religion and the Multiple Logic Tensions of Social Enterprise

Borquist

2021

Religions

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This paper develops a model that advances our understanding of how social enterprises respond to the complexity of a constellation of multiple, often competing goals, referred to here as institutional logics. Introducing a religious logic to the recognised social welfare and commercial logics of social enterprise, this model builds on a religious worldview foundation and incorporates religion-inspired altruistic love and non-transactional giving as its scaffolding. A comparative case study of faith-based, faith-inspired and secular organisations located in Southeast Asia demonstrates the origin and applicability of the model. Findings highlight that religion serves as an overarching logic, or “metalogic”, and frame of reference. Faith-based social enterprises use this religious logic to redefine perceived paradoxical tensions between the social welfare and commercial objectives they embody. Study results advance knowledge on organisational responses to multiple logic prescriptions, underscores the influence of religion, altruistic love and giving on organisational behaviour and contributes to the scarce literature on faith-based social enterprises.

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“…Canda and Furman (2010; but see also Holloway and Moss, 2010) attempt to address this, with an interdisciplinary framework of values, knowledge, skills, and evidence for “spiritually sensitive practice”, using the language of spirituality but not religion. This has been criticised for concealing the real challenge through use of “apologetic proxies” (Dinham and Baker, 2017). Gilligan’s judgement of the situation in the UK is that practitioners are still able to “continue with ‘religion-blind’ and ‘belief-blind’” approaches without these being significantly challenged by agency policies or by professional cultures” (Gilligan, 2009, p. 94).…”

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“…A second critical frame is the notion of religious literacy, and this should underpin research questions and analysis in four domains, rooted in earlier careful scholarship to induce, test and refine the idea of religious literacy in the HE sector, and in schools. This has resulted in a religious literacy framework (Dinham and Baker, 2017), which challenges settings to consider themselves in relation to religion and belief in four ways.…”

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Religion and belief in health and social care: the case for religious literacy

Dinham

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on an action research programme in the UK to address this through the notion of religious literacy. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on original research and analysis in UK higher education settings, the article will argue that health and social care educators, policy makers and practitioners need to develop their religious literacy in order to engage fully and competently with the religion and belief identities of their service users in a religiously diverse and complex world. Findings The relationship between religion and belief on the one hand and health and social care practice has been scarcely addressed, despite the important work of Furness and Gilligan in the UK and Canada in the USA. Their work appears as exceptional within a wider context of professions which have been forged in a predominantly secular milieu, despite having their roots in Christian social services in the USA, Canada and the UK. New research in the sociology of religion shows that religion and belief themselves vary in form, number and mix around the world, and that the religious landscape itself has changed enormously in the period during which secular social work has been changing significantly in recent years. It has been observed that in the UK secular assumptions reached a peak of confidence in the 1960s, when social work was most rapidly consolidating as a public profession (Dinham 2015). The inheritance has been generations of health and social care practitioners and educators who are ill-equipped to address the religion and belief identities which they encounter. In recent years this has become a pressing issue as societies across the West come to terms with the persistent – and in some ways growing – presence of religion or belief, against the expectations of secularism. In total, 84 per cent of the global population declares a religious affiliation (Pew, 2012); globalisation and migration put us all in to daily encounter with religious plurality as citizens, neighbours, service users and professionals; and internationally, mixed economies of welfare increasingly involve faith groups in service provision, including in social work and welfare settings across Europe and North America. Yet the twentieth century – the secular century – leaves behind a lamentable quality of conversation about religion and belief. Public professionals find themselves precarious on the subject, and largely unable to engage systematically and informedly with religion and belief as they encounter them. Originality/value Religion and belief have been bracketed off in education in departments of Theology and Religious Studies. Social work education has largely neglected them, and professional standards, benchmarks, values and toolkits, have tended to use proxies for religion and belief, such as “spirituality”, which are often ill-defined and vague. In a context of the reemergence of public faith, and a widespread acknowledgement that religion and belief did not go away after all, health and social care face the pressing challenge of engaging skilfully. This article draws on an action research programme in the UK to address this through the notion of religious literacy. Reflecting on original research and analysis in UK higher education settings, the article will argue that health and social care educators, policy makers and practitioners need to develop their religious literacy in order to engage fully and competently with the religion and belief identities of their service users in a religiously diverse and complex world.

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New Interdisciplinary Spaces of Religions and Beliefs in Contemporary Thought and Practice: An Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Religion, neoliberalism, planning: an analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’

Religion, neoliberalism, planning: an analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Religion and the Multiple Logic Tensions of Social Enterprise

Religion and belief in health and social care: the case for religious literacy

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