The ‘Religious District’ of Elite Congregations: Reproducing Spatial Centrality and Redefining Mission

Elite congregations in urban areas form a “religious district,” a socially constructed religious space, that reproduces yet continually redefines the meaning of that space. I apply insights from urban ecology, the new urban geography, and ‘agency’ theory to examine how congregations in a religious d...

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Main Author: Wedam, Elfriede (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2003
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2003, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-64
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