One discourse community that I belong to is the catholic church. We have the same goal of practicing our religion and to ultimately get into heaven. Our priest talks and tells us the stories and prayers in a lecture setting. The transfer of knowledge that we get is the metaphors and his word. The genre that we have is the bible and the lecture that is given while we’re there. The content is all about the stories and what he thinks is right and wrong and what we should do. Although I belong to this one I don’t think I’ve been apart of one that I have resisited. I didn’t like going to church for a while, but I started taking it in and maybe this is a discourse community that I have resisted and then grown to like.
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church and religious groups are definitely a strong example of a discourse community. I think a lot of people may resist religion and actually going and participating in sermons and that is a also a good example of not conforming to a discourse community. personally, I think even if you are one religion you are resisting another religion which is another discourse community.
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Religious groups is definitely one of the biggest examples of discourse communities as well as ones that are resisted
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I am not religious myself, but I think I can agree with most of your points that you mentioned, and I respect that. I was really that you said you used to not think you belong to the church yet you slowing start communicating and ending up liking it. I think that’s what most people would love to know and experience.
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I agree with the other comments, religion is definitely a good example of a discourse community, I myself used to go to church. I began on and off as a young child and it got more constant in my teenage years. As I got older and more busy I had less and less time to make it to church between work and my school schedule.
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I can relate because I also belong to a discourse community which is a religious group. When I first started going to church as a kid I was also resisting this community. I didn’t share the same goals as everyone else in the group until I got older. I always went to church my whole life but never felt like I belonged to this community until I finally understood my goal and stopped resisting.
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Haley, one of my best friends is catholic and it can really entertaining to converse about conflicting dogma. Seeing as how I was raised Lutheran, my denomination kind of came about as a result of separation from Catholicism, and ironically, he and I probably have more similarities than differences. #prayingtosaintsisstillwacktho. Hah, in all seriousness, I think it’s perfectly natural for any person to question anything as deep as faith. This is a discourse community that spans millenia and possibly, across different religions as a buddhist or a sikh may also have something to offer in the conversation of spiritualism. Interesting to think about, isn’t it?
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