Promise Keepers in Perspective: Organizational Characteristics of a Men’s Movement
The Promise Keepers offers an interesting site for an exploration of the characteristics of an atypical religious bureaucracy. Applying Eugene Litwak’s (1985) task specific theory to the Promise Keepers’ formal organization and small groups provides us with a framework for understanding how these tw...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2000
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 209-224 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | The Promise Keepers offers an interesting site for an exploration of the characteristics of an atypical religious bureaucracy. Applying Eugene Litwak’s (1985) task specific theory to the Promise Keepers’ formal organization and small groups provides us with a framework for understanding how these two contradictory group structures function smoothly in tandem. In this exploratory study, we find that in lieu of a centralized ministry, the Seven Promises of the Promise Keepers serve both to integrate members of the small groups and to maintain an ideal distance between the small groups and the formal organization. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004493278_014 |