"The best study of congregations to have appeared in the last
seventy years." --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University "A
path-breaking study of the way in which churches adapt, or fail to
adapt, to changes in their environment. This definitive study
should be read both by people active in church work and by
academics interested in religion in a changing American society."
--Peter L. Berger, Boston University "Those who want to understand
how Americans really deal with the vast changes sweeping our
country, those who care deeply about the future of churches,
synagogues, and other local religious gatherings, and those who
want to contribute to our society's increasingly complex efforts to
build life-giving communities must come to terms with the
discoveries of Nancy Ammerman and her research team . . . Bravo "
--James P. Wind, president, Alban Institute "The first
comprehensive examination of the relationship between rapid
community change and local church life since the 1930s. This is the
sociology of religion at its best, combined with refreshing
reflection on the prospects and possibilities of local faith
communities." --William McKinney, president, Pacific School of
Religion Change--in population, economy, and culture--is sweeping
through American communities. Corner groceries are stocking new
foods. New roads are being built and Main Streets abandoned.
Schools have come and gone, and old friends move away as strangers
arrive. But in every community, no matter how volatile, religious
institutions provide for their members places of moral guidance and
spiritual nurture, civic participation, and identity. How do
congregations react to significant communitiy change? Why do some
religious institutions decline in the face of racial integration
while other adapt and grow? How do congregations make sense of
economic distress? Do they provide havens from community upheaval
or are they vehicles for change? Congregations and Community is the
most comprehensive study to date of congregations in the face of
community transformation. Nancy Ammerman and her colleagues include
stories of over twenty congregations in nine communities from
across the nation, communities with new immigrant populations,
growing groups of gays and lesbians, rapid suburbanization, and
economic dislocations. With almost half of the nation's population
attending religious services each week, it is impossible to
understand change in American society without a close look at
congregations. Congregations and Community will exist as a standard
resource for years to come, and clergy, academics, and general
readers alike will benefit from its insights. Nancy Tatom Ammerman
is a professor of the sociology religion at Hartford Seminary. She
is the author of several books, including Baptist Battles and Bible
Believers (both available from Rutgers University Press). The
reserch for this book was supported by a grant from the Lilly
Endowment.
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