Respect, Challenges, and Stress among Protestant Pastors Closing a Church: Structural and Identity Theory Perspectives
The number of American churches has been declining at a rate of about 1 to 2% per year, but this statistic hides the reality that in liberal, moderate denominations the number of churches that close is nearly three or four times the number that open. Despite this trend of decline, no one has studied...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-333 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KDD Protestant Church KDE Anglican Church RB Church office; congregation RG Pastoral care |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious gatherings
B church decline B Congregations B Well-being B Identity Theory B Identity Politics B Pastoral Psychology B Protestantism B Clergy B Stress |
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