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So, yesterday, I actually began work, in earnest, on my dissertation.\u00a0 I really haven\u2019t touched it, and haven\u2019t even thought about it much, since my proposal was approved and I passed my comps a couple years ago.\u00a0 Well, actually, I\u2019ve thought about it pretty much every day since about that often I hear, \u201cSo, how\u2019s the dissertation coming?\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve finished all of my research, although I\u2019m going to have to do a bunch of reading to remind myself of everything I learned while at PTS<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m using Scrivener<\/a> \u2014 at least for the 30-day trial \u2014 and so far I really like it.\u00a0 I tend to think about writing in a fairly linear fashion, but Scriverner will help a lot as I find stuff that applies to different parts of the diss.<\/p>\n

I dug out the brief notes I took on a phone call with my advisor, Kenda Dean, about a year ago.\u00a0 So this is what I\u2019ve got to go on:<\/p>\n

1. Problem (and solution)
\nLit review
\nDefine terms (social movement)<\/p>\n

2. Method
\ndetailed descriptions of movement and specific churches<\/p>\n

3. What did I find out?
\nExplicate data
\nCore practices<\/p>\n

4. Moltmann \u2013 trinitarian relational ecclesiology<\/p>\n

5. pragmatic responses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since a literature review seems profoundly boring to work on, I\u2019ve jumped right to the social movement work.\u00a0 I\u2019m familiarizing myself with theory on New Social Movements<\/a>, since several sociologists with whom I\u2019ve spoken have said that the emerging church movement is clearly an NSM.\u00a0 The first book to tackle is Frontiers in Social Movement Theory<\/em><\/a>, plus a journal article criticizing NSM theory, in which I read this:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideological hegemony of the state requires counter-hegemonic actions by social movements to dismantle the dominant social views that reinforce the legitimacy of the capitalist system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gotta love it!\u00a0 It sounds like a quote from David Fitch\u2019s blog<\/a>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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