Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities: A

Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional CommunitiesA Comparative Ethnographic Study\nAuthor(s): Mark Killian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498546607, 978-1498546607\nSynopsis\nThrough ethnographic research, Killian examines vitality in Philadelphia and Berea, two Christian Intentional Communities whose participants live in close proximity with one another to achieve religious values. Pulling from Anthony Giddens theory of structuration, Killian argues that the vitality of both communities cannot be reduced to deterministic structural, individual, or organizational causes. Rather, vitality in these communities is affected by all of these causes in relationship to one another. In other words, its not that each explanation matters ([url] social structures matter, organizational behaviors matter, individual religious choices matter), but that these explanations matter to each other ([url] social structur.