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1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index. |
| Contents |
The restructuring of American religious traditions -- The trouble with tradition -- Constructing the catalysts of change -- Reframing the tradition -- In the image of evangelicalism -- Conflict, compromise, and consensus -- Tradition and change in the American religious landscape. |
| Summary |
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded?. Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson?s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the tra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Church renewal.
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Church renewal. |
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Church -- History of doctrines.
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Church -- History of doctrines. |
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Church. |
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Tradition (Theology)
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Tradition (Theology) |
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Big churches.
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Big churches. |
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Christian sects.
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Christian sects. |
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Protestant churches.
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Protestant churches. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ellingson, Stephen, 1962- Megachurch and the mainline. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226204895 9780226204901 (DLC) 2006025444 (OCoLC)70921340 |
| ISBN |
9780226204925 (electronic book) |
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0226204928 (electronic book) |
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1281956775 |
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9781281956774 |
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9780226204895 |
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9780226204901 |
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0226204898 |
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0226204901 |
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