Malcolm Torry

Managing God's Business

Religious and Faith-Based Organizations and their Management

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religious and faith-based organisations constitute a large and important group of organisations. This is the first book to study systematically their characteristics and the distinctive challenges they pose to the people managing them. Malcolm Torry discusses how to define religious and faith-based organisations, how to study them, and the secular context in which they operate in Western Europe and the USA. There are chapters on congregations, denominations, governance, membership, the clergy, leadership, and religious and faith-based organisations' relationship to civil society. The book relies on research-based literature and case studies and contains full bibliographies, making it an essential tool for anyone studying this important new field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781032099927
• ISBN-10: 1032099925
• Artikelnr.: 62151716

Autorenporträt

Dr. Malcolm Torry is Team Rector of the Parish of East Greenwich, and Senior Research Associate, Centre for Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Management, Roehampton University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction: The study of religious and faith-based organizations and their management
Defining religious and faith-based organizations and defining them as voluntary organizations
How should we study religious and faith-based organizations?
Secularization
Congregations: how they work and how they change
Federations of congregations: sects, denominations, churches, and more...
The governance of religious organizations
Faith-based organizations
Membership in religious organizations
The clergy: priests or professionals?
Religious and faith-based organizations: their contribution to civil society
Leadership in religious and faith-based organizations
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.