... of religion literature. Amish/Mennonites family network analysis Church Growth and Decline There are many mechanisms by which religious social ties can affect conformity to group norms, commitment, and retention within religious groups. Religious social ties socialize individuals into the norms, values...

...Kevin N Flatt; D Millard Haskell; Stephanie Burgoyne Operating within, and sometimes outside, these two grand theories is a body of church growth research that attempts to determine the specific reasons some churches grow in membership, attendance, and participation, while others decline. Most...

... participation in an age in which mainstream religious practices are far less authoritative and meaningful to youth than these alternative cultural expressions are. evangelical Protestantism music popular culture nonreligious church growth and decline Changes in the U.S. religious landscape are ordinarily...

... inquiry by W. E. B. DuBois. African Americans culture socialization church growth and decline Contrary to predictions by academicians and mainstream pundits ( Glaude 2010 ), religion continues to play an indelible role in the lives of Americans in general and African Americans in particular ( Barnes...

... that the politics of prohibition could free religious southerners from their perceived crisis and reclaim an imagined golden age for American religion. church growth industrialization New South professionalization spiritual crisis anxiety prohibition Wiebe Robert agriculture amusements popular Ayers...

... have been receptive to Protestantism, Korea stands out from a demographic perspective, even if some evidence suggest that church growth has tapered off in recent years. One is even tempted to speak of “Korean exceptionalism,” in light of this country’s early embrace and indigenization of various forms...

...This chapter discusses Anglican practice of and engagement in mission, concluding with some suggested future trajectories. The Five Marks of Mission are considered in some detail along with other contextual trends such as the church growth movement, mission-shaped church and Fresh Expressions...

...The Philadelphia Church of Christ, a congregation associated with a movement called the International Churches of Christ, put a great deal of emphasis on the importance of rapid church growth. The congregation was a place where people were taught that it is a mistake for Christians to pour too much...

... and the deep impact of its experience of church growth on wider global Christianity. Placing the life of the church and its founder David Yonggi Cho in their social context of Korea, the study identifies key motivations for the theological and practical processes and the outcome of church growth. Based...

... John Ames William Baxter Richard God Mather Cotton Indians revival Vetö Miklos millennium Bellamy Joseph Edwards Jonathan Jr Hopkins Samuel Miller Perry Niebuhr Reinhold preaching church growth world religions fundamentalist liberal missions conversion spiritual formation Reformed...

... doctrines, most notably the near-magical tropes of church growth and of prosperity gospel, to address culturally specific concerns within the larger context of late modernity and neoliberalism. The churches’ tropes of evangelization, church growth, education, improved family dynamics, and other capacity...

... on Northern Ireland associational culture Presbyterian Church in Ireland Church of Ireland Methodism Baptists evangelicalism ecumenism church growth The religious beliefs and practices of Protestants in Northern Ireland have not been well served by scholars. ‘Protestant’ is reduced to a synonym...

... Testament into local vernacular languages. SIL evangelistic goals and methods are contextualized through the lens of another major movement in mid-twentieth century missionary evangelism, the Church Growth movement. SIL theorists of translation, especially Eugene Nida, tried to create a translation...

... Western mission (Catholic and Protestant) indigenous movements church growth contextualization inculturation postdenominationalism nondenominationalism Sinicization world Christianity The present chapter has three points of focus. First, it explores how the contextualization of the Christian...

... and pluralism, the established Churches of England and Scotland losing their near-monopoly of religious affiliation in the face of Dissent’s rapid advance. The nineteenth century witnessed sustained church growth, absolute and relative, in members and Sunday scholars. Despite the continued existence...

...Divine healing and liberación (liberation or deliverance) became the primary tool for evangelization and church growth in Pentecostal and evangelical Protestant churches in Argentina between 1985 and 1990. Key leaders are Carlos Annacondia, Omar Cabrera, Hector Giménez, and Claudio...

... women salvation He Guanghu Judaism Liu Xiaofeng Tian Feng Heavenly Wind You Bin “cultural Christians ” contextualization May Fourth Movement Scriptural Reasoning Yang Huilin Bays Daniel Wielander Gerda Ding Guangxun K H Ting Wang Mingdao church growth state regulation Academic...

... Party Episcopalian Broad Church movement Episcopalian nativism nativist movement Hatch Nathan Hodges Graham Russell Johnson Paul New York church histories church congregations religious traditions urban expansion religious experience church growth Imagine, for a moment, the scenes that have...

...This chapter starts by questioning any account that would see the Vineyards mere epiphenomenon. It then asks whether, despite its constituent heterogeneity, the Vineyard is held together by either the governing structure of institutions, by an ethic of responsibility, by church growth...