Understanding Religious-Organizational Marketization: the Case of the United States Mainline
Past decades have witnessed an accelerating proliferation of managerial and market-associated discourses and imperatives across the traditional religious-organizational field. Based on theoretical perspectives on marketization, this article outlines a general analytical framework by which to approac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 4, Pages: 815-835 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Commercial exploitation
/ Religious organization
/ Protestantism
/ Discourse
/ Market
/ History 1990-2022
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church RB Church office; congregation RJ Mission; missiology TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | Past decades have witnessed an accelerating proliferation of managerial and market-associated discourses and imperatives across the traditional religious-organizational field. Based on theoretical perspectives on marketization, this article outlines a general analytical framework by which to approach, empirically investigate, and understand processes of organizational marketization as they unfold in contemporary religious-organizational settings. As illustrated by more recent developments among the Protestant mainline denominations in the United States, the article (1) provides a general sociological explanation for the primary reasons why processes of organizational marketization have been set in motion within the US mainline; (2) outlines the main ways and means by which such processes have tended to unfold; and (3) accounts for their main practical effects on current mainline organizational cultures and working routines. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfac076 |