‘Does God Mind?’: Reshaping Chinese Christian Rites of Passage, <i>c</i>.1877–1940

Does God Change His Mind?

God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God

The agentive aspects of communicative religious experiences remain somewhat neglected in the social sciences literature. There is a need for phenomenological descriptions of these experiences and the ways in which they differ from culturally defined psychopathological states. In this semi-structured interview study, eight congregants attending an evangelical church in London were asked to descr...

Dance Dance Education and Rites of Passage

The experience of a successful adolescent learner will be described from the student’s perspective about learning the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) through selected passages from a phenomenological interview. The question driving this investigation is, “Why did she sustain engagement in learning?” The importance of this question came out of the need for background on how to create an ...

Euthanasia and the Christian understanding of God.

Man Thou Art Dust: Rites of Passage in Austere Times

In response to recent calls for further cross-disciplinary research on austerity and a deeper sociological understanding of the impact and aftermath of the economic crisis on individuals and societies, this article builds on extant austerity literature through an exploration of its effects on European men. Informed by theories of liminality and rites of passage, this qualitative investigation e...