Congregations and Change
Congregations and Change
Interpreting Religion’s Significance in the New Metropolis
Chapter 8 examines the need for community in the new urban era and the distinctively religious form of community offered by congregations. The chapter also discusses the continuum of congregational urban impact (weak to moderate to strong) based on variables of spatial type, congregational traits, and congregational action, and makes a reasonable case for why urban scholars and other urban observers should pay attention to religion’s role in the new metropolis, along with political, economic, social, racial/ethnic, and other factors. Like these others, religion exerts an ambivalent influence on cities, sometimes to the betterment, sometimes to the detriment of urban life.
Keywords: community, congregation, urban impact, religion, metropolis, new urban era
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