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Sacred Subdivisions : The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism /

In an era where church attendance has reached an all-time low, recent polling has shown that Americans are becoming less formally religious and more promiscuous in their religious commitments. Within both mainline and evangelical Christianity in America, it is common to hear of secularizing pressure...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wilford, Justin G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Sacred archipelgaos: spaces of secularization
  • Sacred scenes: postsuburbia and evangelical performance
  • Purpose driven pluralities: variety, consumption and choice in postdenominational evangelicalism
  • Purpose driven places: small performances in big churches
  • Purpose driven planet: the globalization of evangelical postsuburbia
  • Purpose driven politics: the saddleback civil forum and the new civility of evangelism
  • Conclusion: assembling spaces of fusion, de-fusion, and diffusion in the postsuburban landscape.