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Sacred companies : organizational aspects of religion and religious aspects of organizations /

Religion is intrinsically social, and hence irretrievably organizational, although organization is often seen as the darker side of the religious experience - power, routinization, and bureaucracy. Religion and secular organizations have long received separate scholarly scrutiny, but until now their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Demerath, N. J. (Nicholas Jay), 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Colección:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The relevance of organization theory to the study of religion / Paul DiMaggio
  • Religious groups as crucibles of social movements / Mayer N. Zald & John D. McCarthy
  • The corporation sole and the encounter of law and church / Perry Dane
  • Institutions and the story of American religion: a sketch of a synthesis / Harry S. Stout & D. Scott Cormode
  • Identifying characteristics of "religious" organizations: an exploratory proposal / Thomas H. Jeavons
  • Religion and the organizational revolution in the United States / Peter Dobkin Hall
  • Does institutional isomorphism imply secularization?: churches and secular voluntary associations in the turn-of-the-century city / D. Scott Cormode
  • Ethnocultural cleavages and the growth of church membership in the United States, 1860-1930 / Judith R. Blau, Kent Redding, & Kenneth C. Land
  • Snatching defeat from victory in the decline of liberal Protestantism: culture versus structure in institutional analysis / N.J. Demerath III
  • Denominations as dual structures: an organizational analysis / Mark Chaves
  • The Presbyterian re-formation: pushes and pulls in an American mainline schism / Mark N. Templeton & N.J. Demerath III
  • Organizational change in theological schools: dilemmas of ideology and resources / Rhys H. Williams
  • Congregational models and conflict: a study of how institutions shape organizational process / Penny Edgell Becker
  • four economic models of organization applied to religious congregations / Charles E. Zech
  • Why strict churches are strong / Laurence R. Iannaccone
  • Beyond mutual and public benefits: the inward and outward orientations of nonprofit organizations / James D. Davidson & Jerome R. Koch
  • Religious congregations as nonprofit organizations: four English case studies / Margaret Harris
  • Secularization, religion, and isomorphism: a study of large nonprofit hospital trustees / David Swartz
  • Church-agency relationships and social service networks in the black community of New Haven / Patricia M.Y. Chang [and others]
  • Transformative movements and quasi-religious corporations: the case of Amway / David G. Bromley
  • Cultural power: how underdog religious and nonreligious movements triumph against structural odds / Rhys H. Williams & N.J. Demerath III
  • Transcending sacred and secular: mutual benefits in analyzing religious and nonreligious organizations / N.J. Demerath III & Terry Schmitt.