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classic on change in small town churches.,
This review is from: New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church (Paperback)
Warner's ethnographic account of change in a small town church is a classic of religious social scientific scholarship. With extensive data drawn from archives and years of interviews and participant observation, Warner chronicles the unlikely transformation of a small church from conservative to liberal and back again. Warner's grassroots view of social changes captures, as well as any, how structural change and the actions of individuals work together to create certain social outcomes. More specifically, Warner engages with and explicates how it is that religion not only did not die off in the 1960s and 1970s, but rather experienced resurgence in a number of places and ways.
Warner's description is both thick and thoughtful, providing rich analysis and an exemplary model for similar research into religious change at the local level. And of course, Wineskins is a reminder that if you get too close to your work you might end up marrying the organist. |
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New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church by R. Stephen Warner (Paperback - September 10, 1990)
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