The Rise of Network Christianity How Independent Leaders Are Changing the Religious Landscape
Network forms of governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today's unstable religious marketplace. Christerson and Flory hypothesize that as more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more orientated around practice than theology, more shaped by the individual religious consumer, and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions. Network Christianity, they argue, is the future of Christianity in America.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | REL |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190635673 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190635671 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Series | 000803918 |
Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.05" L x 90.00" W |
Page Count | 200 |
Brad Christerson is Professor of Sociology at Biola University. Richard Flory is senior Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.