Congregation & community
How do congregations react to significant community change? Why do some religious institutions decline in the face of racial integration while other adapt and grow? How do congregations make sense of economic distress? Do they provide havens from community upheaval or are they vehicles for change? Congregations and Community is a study of congregations in the face of community transformation. Nancy Ammerman and her colleagues include stories of over twenty congregations in nine communities from across the nation, communities with new immigrant populations, growing groups of gays and lesbians, rapid suburbanization, and economic dislocations.--From publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©1997
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, ©1997
Case studies
xvi, 434 pages ; 25 cm
9780813523347, 9780813523354, 0813523346, 0813523354
34704923
1. Congregation and Community: Introductions
2. Persistence in the Face of Change
3. Relocating: New Places, New Identities. Leaving the Old Neighborhood. Establishing a Niche
4. Adaptation: Integrating Gay and Straight
5. Adaptation: Integrating across Cultures
6. Adaptation: Creating New Internal Structures
7. Innovation: Birth and Rebirth
8. How Congregations Change
9. Congregation and Community: Conclusions
App. A. Focus Questions
App. B. Congregational Survey