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The Practice And Meaning Of Communitarian Spirituality In The Focolare Movement, Nori Henk
The Practice And Meaning Of Communitarian Spirituality In The Focolare Movement, Nori Henk
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The purpose of this study is to explore how individuals come to embrace the FM spirituality as radical, making the spiritually meaningful and plausible for social change through a communitarian lifestyle that affects their everyday life. Within the sociological tradition of studying religion and social movements, this study addresses how religiously-motivated, "non-elite" individuals can be collectively recruited and mobilized into life-long agents of change. My study is based on seventy-five interviews and fieldwork at three sites in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
In the dissertation, I addressed the following research questions: 1. If a member is defined as one …