Managing God's Business

Religious and Faith-Based Organizations and their Management

Malcolm Torry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-5159-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing on the author's work as a priest in the Church of England and his interest in theory and practice of the management of religious and faith-based organizations, this text constitutes a significant contribution to research in the field.

Religious and faith-based organisations constitute a large and important group of organisations. This is the first book to study systematically their characteristics and the distinctive challenges they pose to the people managing them. Malcolm Torry discusses how to define religious and faith-based organisations, how to study them, and the secular context in which they operate in Western Europe and the USA. There are chapters on congregations, denominations, governance, membership, the clergy, leadership, and religious and faith-based organisations' relationship to civil society. The book relies on research-based literature and case studies and contains full bibliographies, making it an essential tool for anyone studying this important new field.

Dr. Malcolm Torry is Team Rector of the Parish of East Greenwich, and Senior Research Associate, Centre for Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Management, Roehampton University, UK.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: The study of religious and faith-based organizations and their management; Defining religious and faith-based organizations and defining them as voluntary organizations; How should we study religious and faith-based organizations?; Secularization; Congregations: how they work and how they change; Federations of congregations: sects, denominations, churches, and more...; The governance of religious organizations; Faith-based organizations; Membership in religious organizations; The clergy: priests or professionals?; Religious and faith-based organizations: their contribution to civil society; Leadership in religious and faith-based organizations; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.8.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7546-5159-2 / 0754651592
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-5159-8 / 9780754651598
Zustand	Neuware