Promise and peril
Subtitle: understanding and managing change and conflict in congregations
By: David Brubaker.
Publisher: Alban Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Herndon, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781566993821
Subjects: Church controversies; Change -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Conflict management -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: More than a family system; title: Overview of the study; title: Structure and power; title: Worship : the primary expression of a congregation's culture; title: Leadership in congregations; title: Change and conflict; title: Where do we go from here?; title: Telephone survey; title: Correlations between conflict and key independent variables; title: Logistic regression, full model; title: Guidelines to consider in forming a reference group in congregational change or conflict transformation processes.