{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-megachurches-hardback","title":"Routledge Handbook of Megachurches - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Megachurches \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a survey of global megachurch phenomena, with an international slate of authors introducing existing and emerging research on a wide variety of relevant topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 33 chapters by top scholars in the field, focusing in particular on:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe location, demographic nature, and transnational connections of megachurches.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMegachurch worship, hermeneutics, and theology (in theory and practice).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMegachurch institutional dynamics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe various ways that megachurches have both influenced and been influenced by their social contexts in terms of class, age, gender, sexuality, and pop culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eHandbook's\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547190419694,"sku":"9781032120072","price":361.6,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/routledge-handbook-of-megachurches-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}