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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Oxford Univ. Press
2003
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2003, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-64 |
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