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The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches

Edited By Afe Adogame, Chad M. Bauman, Damaris Parsitau, Jeaney Yip Copyright 2024
508 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

508 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

508 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches provides a survey of global megachurch phenomena, with an international slate of authors introducing existing and emerging research on a wide variety of relevant topics. Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The Handbook offers 33 chapters by top scholars in the field, focusing... Read more

Introduction 

Afe Adogame, Chad M. Bauman, Damaris Parsitau, and Jeaney Yip 

PART I: Geographical Overviews 

1. North America 

Scott Thumma  

2. Latin America 

Henri Gooren, Hans Geir Aasmundsen, Joaquín Algranti, Virginia Garrard, and Ramiro Jaimes Martínez  

3. Europe 

Abel Ugba  

4. Central Africa

Henrietta Nyamnjoh and Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot  

5. East and Southern Africa 

Chammah J. Kaunda and Yabibal Teklu  

6. Southeast Asia and Australia

Yan Liu and Chang-Yau Hoon  

7. East and South Asia 

Jungyeon Yi and Chad M. Bauman  

PART II: Transnational Connections  

8. African Megachurch Missions Abroad 

Babatunde Adedibu  

9. African Diasporia Megachurches in Europe 

Richard Burgess  

10. Korean Diasporic Megachurches in the United States 

Hyemin Na  

11. Transnational Lusophone Megachurches 

Andrew Johnson  

12. Networking and Collaboration 

Allison L. Norton  

Part III: Megachurch Worship  

13. The Transnationalization of Megachurch Music 

Tom Wagner  

14. The Production and Performance of Multisensory Worship Services 

Katja Rakow  

15. Affect, Effervescence, and the Megachurch Ritual Cycle 

Kate J. Stockly 

16. Preaching 

Felicity Apaah  

PART IV: Hermeneutics and Theology in Practice  

17. Prosperity and the Therapeutic Turn 

Jayeel Cornelio  

18. Charismatic Gifts 

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu  

19. Deliverance Naomi Richman  

PART V: Institutional Dynamics  

20. Theories of Growth Chad M. Bauman 

21. How and Why People Participate in Megachurches 

Warren Bird and Scott Thumma  

22. Leadership 

Ed Stetzer and Andrew MacDonald  

23. Megachurches’ First Ladies  

Damaris Parsitau and Abimbola Adelakun  

24. Marketing and the Business of God  

Jeaney Yip and Susan Ainsworth  

25. Controversies, Scandals, and Crises 

Dodeye U. Williams  

PART VI: Social Context  

26. Urbanisms and Imaginaries of Space 

Daniel P. S. Goh  

27. Ethnicity and Multiculturalism  

Sarbeswar Sahoo  

28. Class Terence Chong  

29. Youth Wanjiru M. Gitau  

30. Gender and Sexuality 

Kim Knibbe and Marju-Riika Komulainen  

31. Social Media and Pop Culture 

Kathleen Openshaw and Adam Possamai  

32. Aesthetics, Architecture, and Ambition  

Simon Coleman 

PART VII: Response  

33. Response: Revivalism and the Meaning of Megachurches 

Timothy Wadkins 

Index

Biography

Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society and Chair of History and Ecumenics Department at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA.

Chad M. Bauman is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Butler University in Indianapolis, USA.

Damaris Parsitau is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies and the Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, Calvin University, USA.

Jeaney Yip is Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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