From Denominationalism to Market Standards: How Does the Religious Market Affect Authority Relations in Protestant Congregations?

For decades, scholars of religion have shared the diagnosis that the Protestant field in the U.S. is transformed into a religious market. We use the concept of "competing institutional logics" in order to study the changing legitimation of authority structures in two Protestant megachurche...

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Authors: Pruisken, Insa (Author) ; Loebell, Josefa (Author) ; Monowski, Nina (Author) ; Kern, Thomas (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Pages: 508-533
Further subjects:B History of religion studies
B Religious sociology
B Social sciences
B Religionspsycholigie
B Religionswissenschaften
B Religion & Gesellschaft
B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft
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