An Organizational Classification of Protestant Denominations

While Protestant religious groups are self-classifying with regard to centralization of authority (polity), this dimension has been largely ignored in research on Protestants, in part due to the lack of an easily accessible scale. An attempt is made in this paper to derive such a classification, wor...

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Main Author: Sullins, D. Paul (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer 2004
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2004, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 278-292
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