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Sonya Sharma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Young Women, Sexuality and Protestant Church Community
    European Journal of Women's Studies, 2008
    Co-Authors: Sonya Sharma
    Abstract:

    Although Christianity's clout on sexuality has generally declined in Britain due to secularization, contemporary conservative Protestantism continues to encourage a conventional construction of sexuality — . Qualitative interviews with 26 heterosexual women and two lesbian women on how their Protestant Church involvement impacted their sexuality revealed the pervasive discourse of a marital-confined sexuality and participants' sense of `accountability' to the group for carrying this out. Such accountability can result in a repressed sexuality that is oppressive. Alternatively, it can produce a `sense of community' that functions as a source of empowerment. The oppressive and empowering nature of accountability, however, can be difficult to untangle because of women's religious commitment and supportive friendships found in Church life. Relying on participants' accounts, this article addresses the oppression and empowerment young women experience when they negotiate their gendered identities in relation to a marital-confined sexuality.

  • Young women, sexuality and Protestant Church community: oppression or empowerment?
    European Journal of Women's Studies, 2008
    Co-Authors: Sonya Sharma
    Abstract:

    Although Christianity's clout on sexuality has generally declined in Britain due to secularization, contemporary conservative Protestantism continues to encourage a conventional construction of sexuality — sex is only for the context of heterosexual marriage. Qualitative interviews with 26 heterosexual women and two lesbian women on how their Protestant Church involvement impacted their sexuality revealed the pervasive discourse of a marital-confined sexuality and participants' sense of `accountability' to the group for carrying this out. Such accountability can result in a repressed sexuality that is oppressive. Alternatively, it can produce a `sense of community' that functions as a source of empowerment. The oppressive and empowering nature of accountability, however, can be difficult to untangle because of women's religious commitment and supportive friendships found in Church life. Relying on participants' accounts, this article addresses the oppression and empowerment young women experience when the...

Ludger Woessmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
    Abstract:

    Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized Churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant Church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education—but not income or urbanization—is negatively related to Church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced Church attendance, while the reverse is not true. Dynamic panel models with lagged dependent variables and instrumental-variable models using variation in school supply confirm the results. The pattern of results across school types is most consistent with a mechanism of increased critical thinking in general rather than specific knowledge of natural sciences.

  • education and religious participation city level evidence from germany s secularization period 1890 1930
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
    Abstract:

    Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized Churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant Church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education—but not income or urbanization—is negatively related to Church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced Church attendance, while the reverse is not true. Dynamic panel models with lagged dependent variables and instrumental-variable models using variation in school supply confirm the results. The pattern of results across school types is most consistent with a mechanism of increased critical thinking in general rather than specific knowledge of natural sciences.

Gustav K.k. Yeung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • constructing sacred space under the forces of the market a study of an upper floor Protestant Church in hong kong
    Culture and Religion, 2011
    Co-Authors: Gustav K.k. Yeung
    Abstract:

    In Hong Kong, over half of the Protestant Churches are located in the upper-floor units in commercial and residential buildings. Because of their physical locations, these Churches are sometimes dubbed ‘upper-floor Churches’. Unlike those that occupy stand-alone religious buildings or dwell in Church-run schools and social service centres, these are often invisible in the landscapes of the city. Through analysis of a case study, this paper aims to explore the spatial practices that a Protestant community has adopted in acquiring, representing, and ritualising a business unit in a residential high-rise for building up their Church. Our analysis of the case study shows that in a metropolis like contemporary Hong Kong, the construction of sacred space is full of tensions between utilitarian calculations and concerns of human relations and religious values. While the congregation had been very creative in transforming a commercial unit into a religious site, it did not show much awareness of the oppressive po...

  • Constructing sacred space under the forces of the market: A study of an ‘upper-floor’ Protestant Church in Hong Kong
    Culture and Religion, 2011
    Co-Authors: Gustav K.k. Yeung
    Abstract:

    In Hong Kong, over half of the Protestant Churches are located in the upper-floor units in commercial and residential buildings. Because of their physical locations, these Churches are sometimes dubbed ‘upper-floor Churches’. Unlike those that occupy stand-alone religious buildings or dwell in Church-run schools and social service centres, these are often invisible in the landscapes of the city. Through analysis of a case study, this paper aims to explore the spatial practices that a Protestant community has adopted in acquiring, representing, and ritualising a business unit in a residential high-rise for building up their Church. Our analysis of the case study shows that in a metropolis like contemporary Hong Kong, the construction of sacred space is full of tensions between utilitarian calculations and concerns of human relations and religious values. While the congregation had been very creative in transforming a commercial unit into a religious site, it did not show much awareness of the oppressive po...

Anthony J Steinhoff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Sascha O. Becker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
    Abstract:

    Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized Churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant Church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education—but not income or urbanization—is negatively related to Church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced Church attendance, while the reverse is not true. Dynamic panel models with lagged dependent variables and instrumental-variable models using variation in school supply confirm the results. The pattern of results across school types is most consistent with a mechanism of increased critical thinking in general rather than specific knowledge of natural sciences.

  • education and religious participation city level evidence from germany s secularization period 1890 1930
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
    Abstract:

    Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized Churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant Church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education—but not income or urbanization—is negatively related to Church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced Church attendance, while the reverse is not true. Dynamic panel models with lagged dependent variables and instrumental-variable models using variation in school supply confirm the results. The pattern of results across school types is most consistent with a mechanism of increased critical thinking in general rather than specific knowledge of natural sciences.

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