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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
N J Demerath; et al |
| ISBN: | 0195113225 9780195113228 |
| OCLC Number: | 35068109 |
| Description: | xxiv, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The relevance of organization theory to the study of religion / Paul DiMaggio -- Religious groups as crucibles of social movements / Mayer N. Zald & John D. McCarthy -- The corporation sole and the encounter of law and church / Perry Dane -- Institutions and the story of American religion: a sketch of a synthesis / Harry S. Stout & D. Scott Cormode -- Identifying characteristics of "religious" organizations: an exploratory proposal / Thomas H. Jeavons -- Religion and the organizational revolution in the United States / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Does institutional isomorphism imply secularization?: churches and secular voluntary associations in the turn-of-the-century city / D. Scott Cormode Ethnocultural cleavages and the growth of church membership in the United States, 1860-1930 / Judith R. Blau, Kent Redding, & Kenneth C. Land -- Snatching defeat from victory in the decline of liberal Protestantism: culture versus structure in institutional analysis / N.J. Demerath III -- Denominations as dual structures: an organizational analysis / Mark Chaves -- The Presbyterian re-formation: pushes and pulls in an American mainline schism / Mark N. Templeton & N.J. Demerath III -- Organizational change in theological schools: dilemmas of ideology and resources / Rhys H. Williams -- Congregational models and conflict: a study of how institutions shape organizational process / Penny Edgell Becker -- four economic models of organization applied to religious congregations / Charles E. Zech Why strict churches are strong / Laurence R. Iannaccone -- Beyond mutual and public benefits: the inward and outward orientations of nonprofit organizations / James D. Davidson & Jerome R. Koch -- Religious congregations as nonprofit organizations: four English case studies / Margaret Harris -- Secularization, religion, and isomorphism: a study of large nonprofit hospital trustees / David Swartz -- Church-agency relationships and social service networks in the black community of New Haven / Patricia M.Y. Chang ... [et al.] -- Transformative movements and quasi-religious corporations: the case of Amway / David G. Bromley -- Cultural power: how underdog religious and nonreligious movements triumph against structural odds / Rhys H. Williams & N.J. Demerath III -- Transcending sacred and secular: mutual benefits in analyzing religious and nonreligious organizations / N.J. Demerath III & Terry Schmitt. |
| Series Title: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) |
| Responsibility: | edited by N.J. Demerath III ... [et al.]. |
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by paul.commonplaces updated 2011-07-25
