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Becker (Penny Edgell) Eiesland (Nancy L.) eds. Contemporary American Religion. An Ethnographie Reader
No full textHervieu-Léger Danièle. Becker (Penny Edgell) Eiesland (Nancy L.) eds. Contemporary American Religion. An Ethnographie Reader. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°108, 1999. pp. 45-47
Congregations in conflict : cultural models of local religious life
No full textCongregations in Conflict examines the nature of American congregations as institutions, looking in particular at how they deal with conflict within their ranks, to gain insight into religious culture, or the moral order of local religious life. In detailed and well documented case studies of conflict in twenty-three congregations Becker examines such factors as organizational processes, the extent and types of ties between church members, their shared understandings about mission and identity, and level of public commitment. From these factors, the author develops four models of local religious cultures, each of which emphasizes different aspects of the mission imperatives that broadly characterize American religion - to reproduce an historic faith, to provide a caring community of believers, and to witness. Becker finds vital 'public religion': congregations that provide caring and support for members, service to the local community, and important arenas for moral debate and public activism
The social construction of urban American Indian teen’s identity: how to be an Indian*
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Sociology. Advisor: Dr. Penny Edgell. 1 computer file (PDF); ii, 161 pages.Abstract summary not availableClark, Maureen Ann. (2012). The social construction of urban American Indian teen’s identity: how to be an Indian*. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/127647
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
Expectations defied: Church in a time of social change
No full textReviewed Works: Congregations in America by Mark Chaves; Religion and Family in a Changing Society by Penny Edgell; Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America\u27s Divisions by Paul Lichterman; A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion by R. Stephen Warne
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
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