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Church Hurt as Institutional Formation: Governance, Conditional Belonging, and Religious Harm Among Black Millennials and Generation Z

2026-08-06

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This article theorizes spiritual harm in Black Church spaces as institutional governance formation—a structurally embedded set of organizational practices through which sacred institutions regulate identity, discipline desire, and secure communal coherence through the conditional extension and withdrawal of belonging. Drawing on the religious harm and spiritual abuse literature and on organizational sociology, the...

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Literature Corpus work: 90f27037-c43c-5819-b54c-99e2cd2ec993
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.0364.v1

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