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Mission in Evolving Cultures: Constructively Managing Music-Related Conflict in Cross-Cultural Church Planting Contexts
No full textThe choice of music, an essential element of worship and church life, must
be addressed in cross-cultural church planting contexts. As cultures
evolve, church planters are faced with choices about musical styles that
may lead to interpersonal conflicts within the church. The purpose of this
study is to empirically examine factors that may enable cross-cultural
church planters to constructively manage music-related conflicts when they
arise. Members of church plants, like all people, have various goals when
entering into such conflicts. They are concerned about the content of the
conflict (i.e., the musical style) and thus have content goals. They are
also concerned about social elements of the conflict (e.g., their
relationships, their identity and values, and the process used to resolve
the conflict) and thus have social goals. The results of this study of 276
evangelical Christians indicate that achieving both content goals and
social goals contributes to overall satisfaction across various conflict
outcomes. Moreover, the evidence indicates that achieving only a social
goal leads to greater satisfaction with the conflict outcome than achieving
only the content goal in music related conflict. This implies that church
planters, when faced with music-related conflict, should strive to meet the
gospel-congruent social goals of people with whom they are in conflict in
order to maximize satisfaction with the conflict outcome.
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David R. Dunaetz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leadership and Organizational Psychology
Azusa Pacific Universit
Mission in Evolving Cultures: Constructively Managing Music-Related Conflict in Cross-Cultural Church Planting Contexts
No full textThe choice of music, an essential element of worship and church life, must
be addressed in cross-cultural church planting contexts. As cultures
evolve, church planters are faced with choices about musical styles that
may lead to interpersonal conflicts within the church. The purpose of this
study is to empirically examine factors that may enable cross-cultural
church planters to constructively manage music-related conflicts when they
arise. Members of church plants, like all people, have various goals when
entering into such conflicts. They are concerned about the content of the
conflict (i.e., the musical style) and thus have content goals. They are
also concerned about social elements of the conflict (e.g., their
relationships, their identity and values, and the process used to resolve
the conflict) and thus have social goals. The results of this study of 276
evangelical Christians indicate that achieving both content goals and
social goals contributes to overall satisfaction across various conflict
outcomes. Moreover, the evidence indicates that achieving only a social
goal leads to greater satisfaction with the conflict outcome than achieving
only the content goal in music related conflict. This implies that church
planters, when faced with music-related conflict, should strive to meet the
gospel-congruent social goals of people with whom they are in conflict in
order to maximize satisfaction with the conflict outcome.
_______________________
David R. Dunaetz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leadership and Organizational Psychology
Azusa Pacific Universit
Mission in Evolving Cultures: Constructively Managing Music-Related Conflict in Cross-Cultural Church Planting Contexts
No full textThe choice of music, an essential element of worship and church life, must
be addressed in cross-cultural church planting contexts. As cultures
evolve, church planters are faced with choices about musical styles that
may lead to interpersonal conflicts within the church. The purpose of this
study is to empirically examine factors that may enable cross-cultural
church planters to constructively manage music-related conflicts when they
arise. Members of church plants, like all people, have various goals when
entering into such conflicts. They are concerned about the content of the
conflict (i.e., the musical style) and thus have content goals. They are
also concerned about social elements of the conflict (e.g., their
relationships, their identity and values, and the process used to resolve
the conflict) and thus have social goals. The results of this study of 276
evangelical Christians indicate that achieving both content goals and
social goals contributes to overall satisfaction across various conflict
outcomes. Moreover, the evidence indicates that achieving only a social
goal leads to greater satisfaction with the conflict outcome than achieving
only the content goal in music related conflict. This implies that church
planters, when faced with music-related conflict, should strive to meet the
gospel-congruent social goals of people with whom they are in conflict in
order to maximize satisfaction with the conflict outcome.
_______________________
David R. Dunaetz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Leadership and Organizational Psychology
Azusa Pacific Universit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Approaching Honor and Shame with Humility: Limitations to Our Current Understanding
No full textAlthough honor and shame have been popular missiological themes in the last decade, there are several limitations associated with the concepts that occur in both the missiological literature and the secular anthropological, sociological, and psychological literature. The first set of limitations concerns the meaning of honor and shame. Their definitions vary greatly from author to author. Some authors consider honor and shame to be emotions internal to the individual and others consider them as a measure of one’s social status, something external to the individual. Similarly, there is often no distinction made between shame and shame proneness. Their relationship with other self-conscious emotions (guilt, embarrassment, and pride) is not clear. Often the distinction between vicarious and individual shame and honor is blurred. The second set of limitations concerns our lack of understanding of how honor and shame relate to culture. Since shame dynamics exist in every culture, it is not clear what is meant by a “shame culture.” Modern conceptions of culture tend to view culture as a phenomenon that is due to psychological processes within individuals, rather than external to the individual. Characteristics of cultures are described by positions on dimensions. Shame cultures are often defined as those which are more collectivistic (vs. individualistic). However, many definitions of honor and shame indicate that the dimension of cultural tightness (or uncertainty avoidance) may be just as relevant for understanding shame dynamics, and the cultural dimension of power distance may also be relevant. In light of these limitations, missiologists need to approach the concepts of honor and shame with humility
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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