Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define
the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can
make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result,
many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain
powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do
clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved
or discarded?
Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches
in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson's "The Megachurch
and the Mainline" provides new understandings of the transformation
of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular
congregations typify a new type of Lutheranism--one which combines
the evangelical approaches that are embodied in the growing legion
of megachurches with American society's emphasis on pragmatism and
consumerism. Here Ellingson provides vivid descriptions of
congregations as they sacrifice hymns in favor of rock music and
scrap traditional white robes and stoles for Hawaiian shirts, while
also making readers aware of the long history of similar attempts
to Americanize the Lutheran tradition.
This is an important examination of a religion in flux--one that
speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America.
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