Denominationalism

The third option, the one in fact embraced by most religiously affiliated people in the US, is what I think is called "denominationalism" - the idea that different religious organizations are just different consumer products. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This attempt at definition is what Charles Ellis, in responding to O Connell, calls "denominationalism" — it's a second-order process of differentiation from the other varieties of the dominant religious tradition. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In these ways, denominationalism has become less significant as a basis for social and cultural tensions and divisions… As the population has become better educated, denominational barriers have ceased to function as hermetic categories of religious identification.37 ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

With Christians moving from church to church for whatever reasons, and the decreasing emphasis on denominationalism, it is not unusual to find within a a single congregation, many different theological stands. ❋ Alex Tang (2010)

Noxiously resistant to territorialism and denominationalism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Get away from denominationalism and focus on Christianity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A recent series of articles and short video documentaries [complete list here] at the website Talk To Action, which analyzes the intersection of religion and politics, has focused on connections of Palin's churches to that movement and begun to map out the barely-noticed yet rapidly growing, international move among fundamentalist Christianity, away from Christian denominationalism and towards a type of hyper-fundamentalism bent on achieving worldly power. more on Third Wave/New Apostolic Reformation ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm not convinced that denominationalism isn't as potentially divisive as the Jew/Gentile split of the early church, tho it is a reality of church life in our day, and denominations do exist for very good reasons... ❋ Happy (2008)

Call it heresy, but if denominationalism means finding ways to keep individuals connected to our broader movement, if it can find ways of encouraging communications across congregational boundaries, and facilitate folks working together in a context of Unitarian Universalism, then I am all for it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

First, the issue of denominationalism around which this panel is organized. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At Shabbos dinner, I had a fascinating debate with a faculty member and Reform Rabbi on denominationalism and post-denominationalism, it began as a conversation about the job prospects of the students in the Hebrew College Rabbinic program, to which I hope to apply in the near future primarily for the aforementioned reasons. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We agreed that rather than focusing on denominationalism, it was important as people of faith, to be readers and students of God's Word--always asking, "What does scripture say?" and "What does the Church teach?" ❋ Belinda (2007)

“I see a growing post-denominationalism” in a younger generation, she says. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Taizé, for example, is not about post-denominationalism, but rather about "pre-denominationalism", i.e. it does not pretend to overcome differences through a new synthesis, but it's rather about going back to the core of the Christian experience before sects started to appear and to split Christendom. ❋ Unknown (2006)