Sublime

However, as most anthropologists will attest, humans are wired to live in curated collectives, as opposed to mass societies. So people formed new tribes within a larger society in order to find a “place” where they belonged. The French sociologist Michel Maffesoli referred to these new tribes as “neotribes.” The behavioral patterns within these

not the population’s size but its density.

Liberal rabbis often become sacred social workers, mainly focused on pastoral and lifecycle moments in their communities.

Leaders want to know how to become more locally focused in the hope that this will make their churches more relevant or effective.

Freud and Breuer’s Studies on Hysteria,

The huge challenge for the Euro-tribal churches is how we come to release our techniques, management, and desire to fix the church, and instead believe it is God who is acting out ahead of us, particularly in our neighborhoods.