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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Collection: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 confluence has been little considered. This interdisciplinary collection of mostly unpublished papers is the first volume to remedy the deficit. The project grew out of a three-year inquiry into religious institutions undertaken by Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations and sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. The scholars who took part in this effort were challenged to apply new perspectives to the study of religious organizations, especially that strand of contemporary secular organizational theory known as "New Institutionalism." The result was this groundbreaking volume, which includes papers on various aspects of such topics as the historical sources and patterns of U.S. religious organizations, contemporary patterns of denominational authority, the congregation as an organization, and the interface between religious and secular institutions and movements. The contributors include an interdisciplinary mix of scholars from economics, history, law, social administration, and sociology |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 410 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 058525723X 9780585257235 1602561877 9781602561878 9780195113228 0195113225 9786610453795 6610453799 1280453796 9781280453793 |