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Davenport, Erin Jane.

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Group Dynamics in a North Carolina Baptist Church.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Group Dynamics in a North Carolina Baptist Church./
Author:	Davenport, Erin Jane.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	114 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30420404
ISBN:	9798379553302

Group Dynamics in a North Carolina Baptist Church.
Davenport, Erin Jane.

Group Dynamics in a North Carolina Baptist Church. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 114 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

This dissertation examines social interactions within a church to understand how political, gender, and researcher identities are enacted through boundary-drawing and maintenance. Religious communities or congregations are structured by identity and offer unique opportunities to observe tension, conflict, and resilience. I gathered qualitative data for a total period of twelve months. After extensive fieldwork and interviews, I articulated two distinct themes I will explore in my first two chapters, and also had a methodological discovery about the importance of identity disclosure in fieldwork, which is the theme of my third chapter.The first chapter focuses on how members of the church manage their political differences (mostly by avoiding them). I give examples of how people can be ostensibly connected through organizational membership while also maintaining distance and avoiding conflict as a way to maintain that organizational integrity. Chapter two focuses on a sub-group within the church: an all-male Bible study group. Even though these men were involved in evangelical religious life, known for having fairly rigid gender roles, members offer vulnerability and support to each other that eschews hypermasculinity. Finally, the third chapter is a methods paper discussing how my identity as a non-Christian impacted how people interacted with me during fieldwork, reviewing the broader literature involving religious ethnographies, and analyzing data from interviews with some of the authors. In the sociology of religion, authors' religious identities are often not disclosed in written scholarship, especially when compared to focal identities in other subfields (e.g. race, gender, or sexuality). Thus, there are missed opportunities for scholars to show how they used their identities in their research and the opportunities and/or challenges they faced. I offer recommendations on when and how researchers can incorporate statements of positionality regarding religion to strengthen methodological transparency in the sociology of religion subfield.

ISBN: 9798379553302Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Affective polarization

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