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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"megachurch"”.
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New megachurch : coexistence of sacred and secular
… with invention of commercial churches. The term megachurch generally refers to any Protestant congregation church with a sustained average weekly attendance of 2,000 or more in its worship services. With its high density of pet churches in Flushing, NY, average total attendance of weekly Korean …
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New Wine Calls for New Wineskins: Black Megachurch Approaches to Racial Inequality
… contemporary racial inequality offered by black megachurch leaders and attendees. More specifically it also takes into account how religious culture may influence these explanations of and solutions to racial inequality. A case study approach is utilized to examine three black megachurches in …
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Maybe less is more : congregation size and social embeddedness in the age of the megachurch.
A growing body of research documents the rise of large congregations, their success in appealing to younger, more diverse demographics, and what these patterns say about the religious landscape more broadly. A commonly assumed, yet underdeveloped, aspect of this literature is the relationship …
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Voting the Bible, the Texan way : a comparative analysis of how megachurch pastors framed the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential election.
… this analysis takes a critical look at how Texas megachurch pastors used framing techniques and their personal opinions to frame campaign topics in their election-day sermons. An analysis of sermons suggests the following tactics were common: using scripture references as metaphors, linking Old …
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How does who we are affect what we do : an exploration of the organizational identity-strategy nexus in a UK based megachurch
… and strategy within the context of a UK-based megachurch - Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC). While religious organisations are often excluded from strategic management scholarship, this research contends that their unique institutional logic, spiritual authority, and dual identity …
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Evangelizing Neoliberalism through Megachurches in Latin America and the United States
… feature of worldwide Evangelicalism, is the megachurch. In Latin America megachurches have proliferated and grown in political influence when they first came into contact with neoliberalism during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. As Latin America's poor first migrated out of rural areas into …
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SEEKERS NO MORE: HISTORICAL SOURCES OF AMERICAN VOLUNTARYISM
… in American religion is nothing new. The megachurch is simply another form of institutionalized revivalism as voluntaryism became normative within elements of American Evangelicalism. This particular thesis explores the nature of religious voluntaryism as evident in certain sixteenth and …
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A RHETORIC OF CHANGE: CHURCH GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE AT THE RICHMOND OUTREACH CENTER
… Center “The ROC” is an independent soulwinning megachurch in Richmond, Virginia. This thesis explores how rhetoric plays a role in the rapid growth of this urban church and considers the church’s response—rhetorically and politically—to the city’s social issues. Through a rhetorical analysis of …
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The Leadership Succession Process In Megachurches
… processes and experiences of senior pastors in megachurches. The term succession is used in the study to refer to the transition in which one leader leaves an organization and another one takes her/his place. The term process speaks of the sequence of individual and collective events, actions, …