The Resilience of Conservative Religion
Subtitle: The Case of Popular, Conservative Protestant Congregations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521008679
Subjects: Ethical issues & debates; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Sociology; Protestant churches; Social Science; Religion - Church History; The Americas; Sociology - General; Christianity - History - Protestant; Religion / Sociology of Religion; Sociology, Christian; Case studies; Christian sociology; United States
First sentence: Diverse forms of religion exist in every society.
Description: The recent growth and popularity of conservative churches contradicts the idea that late-modern societies have outgrown the need for such relics of the past as traditionalist religions. Joseph Tamney offers an explanation for this apparent incongruity by looking at the case of growing, popular, conservative Protestant congregations in the United States. His findings represent a synthesis of ideas from supporters of secularization theory and from those who stress the competitive market of churches in America as a factor in church growth.