In Search of Spiritual Authority: The Agile Spiritual Leadership Challenge
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10489420" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10489420 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2024.2447122" target="_blank" >10.1080/15348423.2024.2447122</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
In Search of Spiritual Authority: The Agile Spiritual Leadership Challenge
Original language description
As nonhierarchical, egalitarian characteristics of the digital realm provide practitioners with novel avenues to express and enact their beliefs, religious authority becomes a significant subject of academic inquiry. This paper investigates the construction and perception of spiritual authority within the Wisdom School, a minority Christian community committed to Christian mystical and contemplative traditions as a path to spiritual transformation that increasingly engages followers through virtual spaces. Building on the theoretical frameworks of New Media Studies and Digital Religion Studies and utilizing qualitative methodology, including in-depth semi-structured interviews with participants, the research explores how spiritual authority is constituted, maintained, and challenged within a community at the ecclesial periphery, and which leadership style conforms best with the role of the spiritual authority and the expectations of the followers. The findings further reveal a resonance between the expected behavioral patterns and roles of spiritual authorities in such environments and the agile leadership approaches.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50803 - Information science (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Media and Religion
ISSN
1534-8423
e-ISSN
1534-8415
Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001389076800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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