Handbook of megachurches

"The growth of the megachurch (generally defined as a regular attendance of over 2,000 people) is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional religious trends of recent times, certainly within the Christian sphere. Spreading from the USA, megachurches have now become common globally - reaching diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hunt, Stephen, 1954- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2020]
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; volume 19.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46301446*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The megachurch phenomenon / Stephen Hunt
  • Seeking souls, selling salvation : a history of the modern megachurch / Charity Rakestraw
  • The growth of the megachurch / David E. Eagle
  • Toward a typlogy of the megachurch / J. Gordon Melton
  • Megachurches and popular culture : on enclaving and encroaching Simon Coleman and Saliha Chattoo
  • Your church can grow! : a contextual theological critique of megachurches / Martyn Percy
  • Megachurches in the religious marketplace / Marc von der Ruhr
  • Megachurches as total environments / James K. Wellman Jr., Katie E. Corcoran, Kate J. Stockly
  • Megachurches as educational institutions / Mark J. Cartledge
  • Horse and carriage? : megachurches and revivalism / Stephen Hunt
  • 'The evangelisation of the nation, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society' : megachurches and social engagement / Andrew Davies
  • Megachurches and 'reverse mission' / Richard Burgess
  • Megachurches in Canada / Michael Wilkinson, Peter Schuurman
  • Megachurches in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union / Torsten Löfstedt
  • Global, 'glocal' and local dynamics in Calvary Temple : India's fastest growing megachurch / Jonathan D. James
  • Sacred surplus and Pentecostal too-muchness : the salvation economy of African megachurches / Asonzeh Ukah.