The Postindustrial Promise : Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century.
Healy, Anthony.
The Postindustrial Promise : Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century. - Bethesda, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. - 1 online resource (153 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-138).
Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Religion Right; Chapter 2: Change in Postindustrial America; Chapter 3: The Right Place for Me; Chapter 4: Understanding Subcultures and Uniformity; Chapter 5: Fresh Perspectives on Form and Style; Chapter 6: Telling the Tale Anew; Notes; Bibliography.
Tales of demise and decline have come to characterize news on the state of religion and congregations in America. In The Postindustrial Promise, author Anthony Healy finds that the changes in religious life and among congregations are being misunderstood. Instead of seeing the changes as the result of the presumed aspects of postmodern life--individualism, the collapse of social groups, and the scrapping of tradition--Healy sees what has occurred as a postindustrial transformation, in which an economy based on manufacturing has been replaced by one based on corporate and consumer services. This transformation has changed what we value and how we live, as well as how we work. It has also changed congregations and religious life, but not necessarily in the way that many people think. Contrary to the stories of decline, Healy finds that in this time of postindustrial dislocation people are again putting down religious roots. Congregations are making it possible for people to reconnect with the stories and traditions of previous generations and have become the places in society where the reembodying of religious and cultural narratives is taking place. Different from the postmodern script, this postindustrial explanation leads us to fresh insights into the change that has occurred among religious bodies, their congregants, and their communities. This book provides pastors, lay leaders, teachers, scholars, and seminarians with a solid grounding in the basic aspects of the postindustrial transformation and offers direction to help religious leaders develop responsive and viable places of ministry, mission, and program in this time of change.
9781566996686 1566996686
879336 MIL
Social change--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian sociology--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Social change--Religious aspects--Christianity
Christian sociology
United States
Electronic books.
BR517.H43 2005
306.6773083
The Postindustrial Promise : Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century. - Bethesda, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. - 1 online resource (153 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-138).
Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Religion Right; Chapter 2: Change in Postindustrial America; Chapter 3: The Right Place for Me; Chapter 4: Understanding Subcultures and Uniformity; Chapter 5: Fresh Perspectives on Form and Style; Chapter 6: Telling the Tale Anew; Notes; Bibliography.
Tales of demise and decline have come to characterize news on the state of religion and congregations in America. In The Postindustrial Promise, author Anthony Healy finds that the changes in religious life and among congregations are being misunderstood. Instead of seeing the changes as the result of the presumed aspects of postmodern life--individualism, the collapse of social groups, and the scrapping of tradition--Healy sees what has occurred as a postindustrial transformation, in which an economy based on manufacturing has been replaced by one based on corporate and consumer services. This transformation has changed what we value and how we live, as well as how we work. It has also changed congregations and religious life, but not necessarily in the way that many people think. Contrary to the stories of decline, Healy finds that in this time of postindustrial dislocation people are again putting down religious roots. Congregations are making it possible for people to reconnect with the stories and traditions of previous generations and have become the places in society where the reembodying of religious and cultural narratives is taking place. Different from the postmodern script, this postindustrial explanation leads us to fresh insights into the change that has occurred among religious bodies, their congregants, and their communities. This book provides pastors, lay leaders, teachers, scholars, and seminarians with a solid grounding in the basic aspects of the postindustrial transformation and offers direction to help religious leaders develop responsive and viable places of ministry, mission, and program in this time of change.
9781566996686 1566996686
879336 MIL
Social change--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian sociology--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Social change--Religious aspects--Christianity
Christian sociology
United States
Electronic books.
BR517.H43 2005
306.6773083