Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations (Religion in America) - Hardcover
Religion is intrinsically social, and hence irretrievably organizational, although organization is often seen as the darker side of the religious experience--power, routinization, and bureaucracy. Religion and secular organizations have long received separate scholarly scrutiny, but until now their confluence has been little considered. This interdisciplinary collection of mostly unpublished papers is the first volume to remedy the deficit. The project grew out of a three-year inquiry into religious institutions undertaken by Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations and sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. The scholars who took part in this effort weree challenged to apply new perspectives to the study of religious organizations, especially that strand of contemporary secular organizational theory known as "New Institutionalism." The result was this groundbreaking volume, which includes papers on various aspects of such topics as the historical sources and patterns of U.S. religious organizations, contemporary patterns of denominational authority, the congregation as an organization, and the interface between religious and secular institutions and movements. The contributors include an interdisciplinary mix of scholars from economics, history, law, social administration, and sociology.
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N. J. Demerath is at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Peter Dobkin Hall is at Yale University.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0195113225
- ISBN 13 9780195113228
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
- EditorDemerath III N. J., Hall Peter Dobkin, Schmitt Terry, Williams Rhys H.
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