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| Contributors | |
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| Orienting Perspectives | |
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| The Relevance of Organization Theory to the Study of Religion | |
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| Religious Groups as Crucibles of Social Movements | |
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| The Corporation Sole and the Encounter of Law and Church | |
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| Institutions and the Story of American Religion: A Sketch of a Synthesis | |
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| Identifying Characteristics of "Religious" Organizations: An Exploratory Proposal | |
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| Historical Sources and Patterns of U.S. Religious Organizations | |
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| Religion and the Organizational Revolution in the United States | |
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| Does Institutional Isomorphism Imply Secularization?: Churches and Secular Voluntary Associations in the Turn-of-the-Century City | |
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| Ethnocultural Cleavages and the Growth of Church Membership in the United States, 1860-1930 | |
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| Snatching Defeat from Victory in the Decline of Liberal Protestantism: Culture versus Structure in Institutional Analysis | |
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| Recent Dynamics of American Denominations | |
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| Denominations as Dual Structures: An Organizational Analysis | |
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| The Presbyterian Re-Formation: Pushes and Pulls in an American Mainline Schism | |
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| Organizational Change in Theological Schools: Dilemmas of Ideology and Resources | |
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| Congregations Reconsidered | |
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| Congregational Models and Conflict: A Study of How Institutions Shape Organizational Process | |
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| Four Economic Models of Organization Applied to Religious Congregations | |
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| Why Strict Churches Are Strong | |
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| Beyond Mutual and Public Benefits: The Inward and Outward Orientations of Nonprofit Organizations | |
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| Religious Congregations as Nonprofit Organizations: Four English Case Studies | |
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| Action at the Sacred-Secular Interface | |
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| Secularization, Religion, and Isomorphism: A Study of Large Nonprofit Hospital Trustees | |
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| Church-Agency Relationships and Social Service Networks in the Black Community of New Haven | |
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| Transformative Movements and Quasi-Religious Corporations: The Case of Amway | |
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| Cultural Power: How Underdog Religious and Nonreligious Movements Triumph Against Structural Odds | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Transcending Sacred and Secular: Mutual Benefits in Analyzing Religious and Nonreligious Organizations | |
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| Index | |