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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Religious Economy"”.
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Internal Revenue Service and the regulation of religion.
… the assumption that America has an unregulated religious economy. In particular, I look at the sociological impact of defining a 'church' for tax-exempt purposes. Given the constitutional constraints of the First Amendment, the IRS is one the few federal agencies that produces definitive work on …
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Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network
… scale up and turn into a movement bringing about religious revival among culturally influential groups. Among the focal areas for these efforts are European cities. </p> <p>The presence and vitality of newly planted churches in the European metropolis counters the trend of secularization observed …
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The Politics Of Atheism In The West
… of irreligion, or the rejection of all religious truth claims involving supernatural phenomena. In this dissertation, I argue that a cross-national, comparative analysis of nonbelievers and avoatheists provides an ideal opportunity to gain leverage into the poorly understood political …