Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life - Softcover

Becker

 
9780521594622: Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521594626 ISBN 13: 9780521594622
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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This book examines the nature of American congregations as institutions.

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There are more than 300,000 religious congregations in the United States; these communities have more members and generate more participation than any other set of voluntary organizations in American society. This picture of dynamism belies recent, prevailing scholarship that perceives a decline in traditional religious authority, in Americans' commitment to organized religion, and in religious institutions' level of public engagement. Penny Edgell Becker, in this pioneering comparative study of local congregations, argues that the case for declinein community, in commitment, in public engagement - does not stand up to closer scrutiny. Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life examines the nature of American congregations as institutions, looking in particular at how they deal with conflict within their ranks, to gain insight into religious culture, or the moral order of local religious life.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521594626
ISBN 13 
9780521594622
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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