{"id":1558,"date":"2023-07-17T03:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/?page_id=1558"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:19:15","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/?page_id=1558","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Hero Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.4) 0%|rgba(0,0,0,0.4) 100%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.4)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.4)&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_3250_1.jpg&#8221; background_size=&#8221;custom&#8221; background_image_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; 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Church multiplication has historically been a tool used by Western imperialists to colonize non-western indigenous lands and peoples. Christianity\u2019s center of gravity, however, has moved southward (Jenkins, 2006). As religious immigrants move from the Global South to cities in the Global North, they are planting evangelical churches in Western countries and shifting the politics, implications, and dynamics of church multiplication.<\/p>\n<p>This study examines the church planting movement in the Philippines and through the Filipino diaspora in the United States and asks, \u201cwhy and how do churches form and multiply?\u201d This study argues that faith, specifically the beliefs of the Christian faith are shared through various channels that leads to the formation and spread of Christian churches. This study specifically examines four different church planting networks within the International Baptist Church (IBC) network in the Philippines and the United States. These networks will be examined at both the individual and organizational level. First, I conduct life history interviews to explore the beliefs that mobilizes them to engage in church planting. Second, I examine 10 autonomous Filipino churches: 1) two native churches that have been formed and planted in the provincial areas of the Philippines by a church located within Metro-Manila; 2) two indigenous churches located in Cainta, a major city within Metro-Manila; 2) one Filipino immigrant Baptist church that formed and planted another church in Anaheim, California; and 3) three Filipino immigrant Baptist churches in Taylor, Warren, and Belleville, Michigan. In each site, I conduct focus group interviews and engage in participant observation to investigate the processes and mechanisms that lead to the formation and spread of Christian churches.<\/p>\n<p>Collective action has been studied by social movement scholars as an empirical outcome resulting, in part, from a culturally resonant frame. That is, individuals construct shared cultural meanings that then mobilize people to act collectively &#8211; to join demonstrations, engage in sit-ins, and protest. While church planting is certainly not the type of collective action social movement scholars derive their understandings from, I find that the theoretical foundations of social movement studies of why people come together and act collectively to achieve a common goal are relevant and useful in the context of church planting. 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Church multiplication has historically been a tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1222,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h1>RESEARCH<\/h1>\n<h1>What's Faith Got To Do With It\u200b<\/h1>\nThe Evangelical Church Planting Movement in the Philippines and the United States\n\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IBC-Past-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\">\n\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-google_maps .elementor-widget-container{overflow:hidden}.elementor-widget-google_maps .elementor-custom-embed{line-height:0}.elementor-widget-google_maps iframe{height:300px}<\/style>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=International%20Bible%20Church%20Mandaluyong%2C%20Philippines&amp;t=m&amp;z=10&amp;output=embed&amp;iwloc=near\" title=\"International Bible Church Mandaluyong, Philippines\" aria-label=\"International Bible Church Mandaluyong, Philippines\"><\/iframe>\n\nWhile many civil society organizations and social movements have contracted in recent decades, certain faith communities, in particular Christian evangelical churches, have multiplied both in the United States and abroad. Church multiplication has historically been a tool used by Western imperialists to colonize non-western indigenous lands and peoples. Christianity\u2019s center of gravity, however, has moved southward (Jenkins, 2006). As religious immigrants move from the Global South to cities in the Global North, they are planting evangelical churches in Western countries and shifting the politics, implications, and dynamics of church multiplication. In a globalizing world wherein the social significance of religion and beliefs are supposedly diminishing, faith communities are highly active in the public realm and faith-based social action continues to remain a social and political category (Dinham &amp; Lowndes, 2009). The changing global trends, and the active participation of faith communities in the public realm magnifies the growing need for scholarship to examine how these faith communities form as well as the strategies and conditions that mobilizes faith communities to act collectively and engage in social activities.\n\nThis study examines the social construction process of the church planting movement in the Philippines and through the Filipino diaspora in the United States and asks, <em>why and how do churches form and multiply?<\/em> I plan to examine the collective beliefs of church planting through the discourses and practices of Christian adherents to understand the ways faith is shared and promulgated within churches and across different social networks that lead to the formation and multiplication of new churches. The study will investigate how faith as a cultural infrastructure orient and propels individuals to participate in church planting and the conditions and strategies that lead to the formation and multiplication of new churches in various political and cultural contexts.\n\nI hypothesize that the ways faith is shared and transmitted by members of these Christian communities lead to a variation of churches which adapts to the local and political contexts but are linked through the Christian faith which propels church planting. To ground this hypothesis, I will conduct a comparative study of four church planting networks: two church planting networks in the Philippines and two church planting networks in the United States. These networks will be examined at both the individual and organizational level. First, I will conduct life history interviews with various church planters and other affiliated members to explore the discourses of faith that oriented their actions to plant churches and how they have come to understand and share the Christian faith with other members. Second, I will examine 10 native and Filipino immigrant churches: 1) three tribal churches that have been formed and planted in the highlands of Quezon and Rizal Province, Philippines by a church located within Metro-Manila; 2) three Filipino churches located in Cainta, Teresa, and Binangonan, major cities within Rizal Province; 2) one Filipino immigrant Baptist church that formed and planted another church in Anaheim, California; and 3) three Filipino immigrant Baptist churches in Taylor, Warren, and Belleville, Michigan. In each site, I will conduct focus group interviews and engage in participant observation to investigate how the affiliated members of these churches came to a consensus to form and plant a new church, the strategies, and tactics through which new churches were planted, as well as the internal and external factors and processes that sustain the new church plant as its own autonomous entity. These cases will help us to understand how the Christian faith has been shared and adapted across different social, cultural, and political contexts.\n\nThis study situates church planting as a type of religious movement or a faith-oriented collective action. To examine the Christian faith which underpins this distinct collective action, I glean from religious studies to understand how religious scholars examine \u2018religion\u2019. Religious scholars suggest that religiosity can be analyzed through discourses and practices of a specific religious community wherein beliefs and faith manifest through the lived experiences of religious adherents. I adopt this approach to examine how the Christian faith motivates and mobilizes Christian adherents to engage in church planting. On the other hand, collective action has been studied by social movement scholars as an empirical outcome resulting, in part, from a culturally resonant frame. That is, individuals construct shared cultural meanings that then mobilize people to act collectively \u2013 to join demonstrations, engage in sit-ins, and protest. I build on social movement scholarship to analyze how faith, the formation of a shared collective identity, and the mobilizing acts of Christian communities across a multiorganizational field result in church planting.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1558","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1558\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kristinamicu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}