Converting houses into churches: The mobility, fission, and sacred networks of evangelical house churches in Sri Lanka

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: house church; conversion of space; structural mosaic; sacred networks; evangelical Christianity; Sri Lanka; Asian Studies; Religion; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2424; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3681/viewcontent/Converting_houses_into_churches.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper I examine the processes and politics associated with the formation of evangelical house churches in Sri Lanka. In doing so, I show how the sacred space of the house church is constructed through the development of sacred networks, which emerge when a group of Christians assemble for pr...