UID:
almahu_9949747616702882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 496 pages)
ISBN:
9781003222613
,
1003222617
,
9781003861102
,
1003861105
,
9781003861065
,
1003861067
Series Statement:
Routledge Handbooks in Religion
Content:
The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches provides a survey of global megachurch phenomena, with an international slate of authors introducing existing and emerging research on a wide variety of relevant topics. Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The Handbook offers 33 chapters by top scholars in the field, focusing in particular on: The location, demographic nature, and transnational connections of megachurches. Megachurch worship, hermeneutics, and theology (in theory and practice). Megachurch institutional dynamics. The various ways that megachurches have both influenced and been influenced by their social contexts in terms of class, age, gender, sexuality, and pop culture. The Handbook's interdisciplinary orientation makes it essential reading for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, media specialists, pop culture observers, business strategists, leadership consultants, marketing analysts, scholars of religion, and Christian historians, theologians, and missiologists. Experienced scholars of megachurches will gain valuable insight into aspects of megachurch research beyond their own specializations. Scholars new to the field will find the chapters useful as signposts for where to begin their own academic exploration. Christian pastors and laypeople will learn more about this increasingly prominent and influential form of their faith.
Note:
IntroductionAfe Adogame, Chad M. Bauman, Damaris Parsitau, and Jeaney Yip PART I: Geographical Overviews1. North AmericaScott Thumma2. Latin AmericaHenri Gooren, Hans Geir Aasmundsen, Joaqu©Ưn Algranti, Virginia Garrard, and Ramiro Jaimes Mart©Ưnez3. EuropeAbel Ugba4. Central Africa Henrietta Nyamnjoh and Aur©♭lien Mokoko Gampiot5. East and Southern AfricaChammah J. Kaunda and Yabibal Teklu6. Southeast Asia and Australia Yan Liu and Chang-Yau Hoon7. East and South AsiaJungyeon Yi and Chad M. BaumanPART II: Transnational Connections8. African Megachurch Missions AbroadBabatunde Adedibu9. African Diasporia Megachurches in EuropeRichard Burgess10. Korean Diasporic Megachurches in the United StatesHyemin Na11. Transnational Lusophone MegachurchesAndrew Johnson12. Networking and CollaborationAllison L. NortonPart III: Megachurch Worship13. The Transnationalization of Megachurch MusicTom Wagner14. The Production and Performance of Multisensory Worship ServicesKatja Rakow15. Affect, Effervescence, and the Megachurch Ritual CycleKate J. Stockly16. PreachingFelicity ApaahPART IV: Hermeneutics and Theology in Practice17. Prosperity and the Therapeutic TurnJayeel Cornelio18. Charismatic GiftsJ. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu19. DeliveranceNaomi RichmanPART V: Institutional Dynamics20. Theories of GrowthChad M. Bauman21. How and Why People Participate in MegachurchesWarren Bird and Scott Thumma22. LeadershipEd Stetzer and Andrew MacDonald23. Megachurches⁰́₉ First LadiesDamaris Parsitau and Abimbola Adelakun24. Marketing and the Business of GodJeaney Yip and Susan Ainsworth25. Controversies, Scandals, and CrisesDodeye U. WilliamsPART VI: Social Context26. Urbanisms and Imaginaries of SpaceDaniel P. S. Goh27. Ethnicity and MulticulturalismSarbeswar Sahoo28. ClassTerence Chong29. YouthWanjiru M. Gitau30. Gender and SexualityKim Knibbe and Marju-Riika Komulainen31. Social Media and Pop CultureKathleen Openshaw and Adam Possamai32. Aesthetics, Architecture, and AmbitionSimon ColemanPART VII: Response33. Response: Revivalism and the Meaning of MegachurchesTimothy WadkinsIndex
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003222613
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003222613
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