TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilford,Justin G.
TI  - Sacred subdivisions: the postsuburban transformation of American evangelicalism 
SN  - 9780814708309
AV  - BR526 .W533 2012eb
U1  - 277.3/083 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Saddleback Valley Community Church (Mission Viejo, Calif.)
KW  - fast
KW  - Saddleback Church
KW  - gnd
KW  - Church growth
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Église
KW  - Expansion
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Évangélisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Evangelikale Bewegung
KW  - Megakirche
KW  - Religionssoziologie
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Sacred archipelgaos: spaces of secularization -- Sacred scenes: postsuburbia and evangelical performance -- Purpose driven pluralities: variety, consumption and choice in postdenominational evangelicalism -- Purpose driven places: small performances in big churches -- Purpose driven planet: the globalization of evangelical postsuburbia -- Purpose driven politics: the saddleback civil forum and the new civility of evangelism -- Conclusion: assembling spaces of fusion, de-fusion, and diffusion in the postsuburban landscape
N2  - In an era where church attendance has reached an all-time low, recent polling has shown that Americans are becoming less formally religious and more promiscuous in their religious commitments. Within both mainline and evangelical Christianity in America, it is common to hear of secularizing pressures and increasing competition from nonreligious sources. Yet there is a kind of religious institution that has enjoyed great popularity over the past thirty years: the evangelical megachurch. Evangelical megachurches not only continue to grow in number, but also in cultural, political, and economic influence
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