Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism
“Its not about you,” promises megachurch pastor Rick Warren in his opening sentence of his mega-best-seller The Purpose Driven Life. But the design of his church, says Justin Wilford, betrays the opposite vision: “it is unswervingly and painstakingly about you” (71).Wilford does a number of these re...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2013
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 544-545 |
| Review of: | Sacred subdivisions (New York, N.Y. [u.a.] : New York University Press, 2012) (Schuurman, Peter)
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| Summary: | “Its not about you,” promises megachurch pastor Rick Warren in his opening sentence of his mega-best-seller The Purpose Driven Life. But the design of his church, says Justin Wilford, betrays the opposite vision: “it is unswervingly and painstakingly about you” (71).Wilford does a number of these revealing reversals in his new book on Warren's Saddleback Church as he unpacks the geography of megachurches—or what he calls “the postdenominational evangelical church” (PDE)., Wilford is a social geographer who has turned his PhD into a significant addition to the slowly expanding shelf of books on megachurches. His starting point is a critique of religious economy theory: these megachurches are not exploding simply because they have creative marketing campaigns. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt033 |
