Nancy Ammerman

Congregation and Community

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the most comprehensive study to date of congregations in the face of community transformation. Nancy Ammerman and her colleagues include stories of over twenty congregations in nine communities from across the nation, communities with new immigrant populations, growing groups of gays and lesbians, rapid suburbanization, and economic dislocations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780813523354
• ISBN-10: 0813523354
• Artikelnr.: 21254114

Autorenporträt

NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN is a professor of the sociology of religion at the Hartford Seminary. She is author of several books, including Baptist Battles and Bible Believers (both Rutgers University Press). The research for this book was supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Congregation and Community: Introductions
2 Persistence in the Face of Change
3 Relocating: New Places, New Identities
4 Adaptation: Integrating Gay and Straight
5 Adaptation: Integrating across Cultures
6 AdaptationL Creating New Internal Structures
7 Innovation: Birth and Rebirth
8 How Congregations Change
9 Congregation and Community: Conclusions
Appendix A: Focus Questions
Appendix B: Congregational Survey
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index