Böcker av Maren Freudenberg

Social forms of religion - the ways in which individuals and groups coordinate religious practice - produce community at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences. A mix of group, organization, market exchange, network, event, and/or other forms characterizes different traditions. Shifts in dominant social forms within a religious tradition are catalysts and expressions of religious transformation alike. The contributions to the volume test this argument by presenting Catholic, Protestant, Charismatic/Pentecostal, Orthodox, and Mormon case studies from Europe and the Americas.

In reaction to massive membership decline, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America looks to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to transform and attract people to the pews. But is this pluralization of the faith in late modernity compatible with its confessional, liturgical tradition?