Topic: Scott Thumma
The megachurch, with over 2,000 attendees any given weekend, is thought to be the wave of the future of religion in the United States today. Scott Thumma, who holds a Ph.D. in the psychology of religion and currently works at ...
<div><p>FORT WASHINGTON, Md (Reuters) - By the time thousands of parishioners stream into the 3,000-seat Ebenezer AME Church on Easter Sunday, church leaders hope to have something else to celebrate: financial revival.</p><p>The congregation, one of America's ...
A Saturday evening at the Second Baptist Church of Houston is like Christian worship in most American towns: On a megachurch database updated by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, Second Baptist in Houston is listed as ...
Rick Moore and his growing church hope to implement their big plans in a small way. "It's almost like me starting a church plant with 150 people, but with a paid staff and resources of a 1,000-person church," said Moore ...
A Saturday evening at the Second Baptist Church of Houston is like Christian worship in most American towns: On a megachurch database updated by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, Second Baptist in Houston is listed as ...
Megachurches are most attractive to younger adults, and almost all who arrive at their sanctuaries have darkened a church's door before, a new survey shows.. "It appears that megachurches draw persons who want a new experience of worship -- contemporary, large-scale, professional ...
And Lakewood Church, which recently leased the Compaq Center, former home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, has a four-record deal and spends $12 million annually on television airtime. This entrepreneurial approach has contributed to the explosive growth of megachurches--defined as non-Catholic ...
Megachurches -- known for their big buildings, big schools and big crowds -- continue to grow, but a new study detects shifts in the way they are expanding.. larger and larger buildings," said study co-author Scott Thumma, a sociologist of religion at Hartford Seminary ...
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Beyond Megachurch Myths - Scott Thumma & Dave ...
Beyond Megachurch Myths explores the unique characteristics of today's ...2008-03-26 -
Mega-crkve na različitim lokacijama sve brojnije ...
Mnogi mladi evangelički protestanti izbjegavaju voluminozne oblike prakticiranja svoje vjere ...2011-10-26 -
What's the Big Idea of ...
Co-authors Scott Thumma and Warren Bird respond to the question ...2011-06-17
