Lost Lutherans

Chris Suehr

doi:10.5771/9781666947496

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4748-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4749-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Disclaimers No access
1. Lutheran Protestant No access
2. Evangelical No access
3. America No access
4. Mainline No access
5. Fundamentalism No access
6. The Seventh Sister Goes Mainstream No access
7. Notes No access
1. Religion as an Element of Humanity No access
2. Secularization and Protestantism No access
3. Notes No access
1. Observing the Mainline Boom No access
2. The Kelley Thesis No access
3. Religious Economies and Secularization No access
4. Rational Choice and Secularization Theories in Dialog No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Christian Conservative Renaissance No access
2. Religio-Political Polarization No access
3. The Mainline Moral Center and Individualism No access
4. Secularization and Individualism No access
5. Excessive Individualism No access
6. Competition and Demand No access
7. Social-Structural Changes No access
8. Mainline Institutional Perspectives No access
9. A Complex of Factors No access
10. Notes No access
1. American Religious Change by the Numbers No access
2. The Case of the PCUSA No access
3. Moralistic Beliefs No access
4. Mainline Cultural Victory No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. ELCA Predecessor Organizations No access
2. Movements and Mergers No access
3. Culture of the ELCA No access
4. ELCA Divisions No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Changes in the ELCA No access
2. The ELCA and Mainline Decline No access
3. Subdividing ELCA Data Categories No access
4. Changes in Membership Rolls No access
5. Regrouped Categories of Change No access
6. Membership Activity No access
7. Ethnicity and Diversity in the ELCA No access
8. Preliminary Analysis of ELCA Data and Mainline Decline Theories No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Notes No access
1. Preparing for the Interviews No access
2. Conducting the Interviews No access
3. General Findings No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Relational-Positive: The Rosy Dreamer No access
2. Ethical-Positive: The Moral Graduate No access
3. Relational-Negative: The Jilted Exile No access
4. Ethical-Negative: The Aloof Escapee No access
5. General Comments No access
6. Notes No access
1. Exit Dynamics No access
2. Updates and Refinements No access
3. Connections with Mainline Theories No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Integrating Cultural Factors No access
2. Integrating Social-Structural Shifts No access
3. Integrating Institutional Matters No access
4. Integrated Theories of Change in the ELCA No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Prognosis No access
2. Treatments No access
3. Concluding Thoughts No access
4. Notes No access
Appendix No access Pages 147 - 160
Bibliography No access Pages 161 - 170
Index No access Pages 171 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 176