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ISBN: | 9780226204925 0226204928 1281956775 9781281956774 9780226204895 9780226204901 0226204898 0226204901
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded?. Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson?s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the tra.
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Other form: | Print version: Ellingson, Stephen, 1962- Megachurch and the mainline. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226204895 9780226204901
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