Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left: The Complexity of Quaker Disaffiliation

Dandelion, Pink

doi:10.1080/13537900220125190

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“…Human imperfections can take an almost infinite number of forms and which may derail a discernment process. Dandelion (2002), for instance, highlighted possible alienation fuelled by a decision taken without them or by a clear majority. There are also strong social pressures to discern unity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning

Burton

Hawkins

2022

Management Learning

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Through a process of action research with a non-religious organization, this article provides a foundation for the characteristics of a secular discernment process. Importantly, we argue that discernment can be conceptualized as a process of entwined individual unlearning and collective relearning. Our action research study contributes to both the discernment and the unlearning literatures by unpacking how discernment encourages a process of individual unlearning – which our study suggests entails a process of ‘setting aside’ and reflexive-distancing from a priori individual knowledge – to be more open and receptive to new ways of emergent collective re-learning. The process of unlearning – and the behavioural norms and routines that are central to discernment – underscores the collective relearning process. The article concludes with future pathways for research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning

Burton

Hawkins

2022

Management Learning

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“…Where does this focus on shared practice leave our understanding of T/truth in this community? Both Dandelion's (2002) idea of the behavioural creed and Muers' (2015) account of testimony raise sharp questions for the study of Quaker decision-makingspecifically, whether it is possible to understand it solely as a set of shared behavioural norms with no underlying belief commitments? Dandelion cautions that "…the diversity of specific beliefs about the nature of God might undermine the behavioural creed" (2004,222); and…”

Section: Truth In Quakerism Quaker Business Methods and Organizationamentioning

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Organizational ethnography and religious organizations: the case of Quaker decision-making

Burton

Koning

Muers

2018

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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How should we study the management practices of religious organizations to do justice to their distinctive religious motivations and traditions? In this paper, we articulate how a specific research approachorganizational ethnographymay enable a deeper understanding of religious and/or spiritual organizational practice. We approach our methodological research questions by engaging with the literature on the distinctive decisionmaking practices of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), commonly known as the Quaker business method. Having shown that the Quaker business method destabilizes a simple binary between 'insider' and 'outsider' and between believers and non-believers, we bring the theory and practice of organizational ethnography into conversation with Quaker accounts of decision-making. We conclude with pathways for future research in the space this destabilization creates.

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“…Childhood affiliation leaves an imprint on adult religiosity (Bullivant, 2016 ; Schwadel et al., 2021 ; Van Tongeren et al., 2021 ), with the effect perhaps more noticeable among disaffiliates. Indeed, in certain cases, disaffiliation is not accompanied by any change in religiosity (Dandelion, 2002 ; Hout & Fischer, 2002 ).…”

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Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden

Beider

2022

British Journal of Sociology

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One of the distinguishing features of religious life in Western Europe in recent decades has been the sharp increase in the proportion of people who identify as unaffiliated with any religious tradition (religious nones). Non‐affiliation entails a rejection of religious belonging, not the absence of all religious belief and practice; yet the determinants of religiosity among nones have not been fully explored. Drawing on data from the 1998–2018 ISSP surveys in four West European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden), I test the impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of unaffiliated adults by comparing lifelong nones, who were never religiously affiliated, with disaffiliates, who were raised within a religious tradition and have since exited organized religious life. Disaffiliates are consistently more religious than lifelong nones due to religious residue from childhood, with greater residue found among those who were more religiously committed as children. Religious decline among the unaffiliated over time, combined with the increasing proportion of lifelong nones and second‐generation lifelong nones who lack even an inherited, minimal religious residue, suggest that secularization will gather momentum.

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left: The Complexity of Quaker Disaffiliation

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning

Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning

Organizational ethnography and religious organizations: the case of Quaker decision-making

Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden

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