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Deconstruction and Disidentification: An Analysis of U.S White Millennials’ Exodus From Organized Evangelical Christianity

Samuel, J Taylor
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6117-4221
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1722873593926427

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Communication Studies (Communication).
This dissertation centers the lived experiences of N = 43 American millennials who during their adult lives, have deconstructed, disidentified, and exited from organized evangelical Christianity in the United States. In order to investigate this context, I implemented a methodological bricolage (Lévi-Strauss, 1966) of semi-structured interviews, iterative analysis (Tracy, 2013), and autoethnography (Ellis et al., 2011) to quilt together a data corpus that provides a partial yet comprehensive insight into the experiences of the individuals interviewed in this study, as well as my own. Theoretically, this dissertation is grounded in the organizational socialization (Van Maanen & Shein, 1979; Jablin, 1982, 1987, 2001), organizational identification (Cheney, 1983, 2001, 2004; Mael & Ashforth, 1992, Cheney et al., 2014), and the social identity/identification (Burke, 1959; Tajfel & Turner, 1986, 2004) literatures, which provides a framework and opening for this research. Findings from this dissertation add to the faith-based voluntary exit and religious communication literature through the proposal of four theoretical contributions: The Triad of Control, The American Millennial Evangelical Christian Exit Model, The Duality of Deconstruction, and lastly, The Millennial Resistance to Exclusionary Binaries.
Lynn Harter (Committee Member)
Brittany Peterson (Advisor)
Rebekah Crawford (Committee Member)
Laura Black (Committee Member)
197 p.
Communication
Organizational Socialization, Religious Communication, Faith Deconstruction, Faith-Based Voluntary Exit, Disidentification

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  • Samuel, J. T. (2024). Deconstruction and Disidentification: An Analysis of U.S White Millennials’ Exodus From Organized Evangelical Christianity [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1722873593926427

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Samuel, J. Deconstruction and Disidentification: An Analysis of U.S White Millennials’ Exodus From Organized Evangelical Christianity. 2024. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1722873593926427.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Samuel, J. "Deconstruction and Disidentification: An Analysis of U.S White Millennials’ Exodus From Organized Evangelical Christianity." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1722873593926427

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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