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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Authors: Schindler, Amy (Author) ; Lena, Jennifer Carroll (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2000
In: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 209-224
Further subjects:B History of religion
B Social sciences
B Religionswissenschaften
B Religion & Gesellschaft
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