The Postindustrial Promise: Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century

The Postindustrial Promise: Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century

by Anthony Healy
The Postindustrial Promise: Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century

The Postindustrial Promise: Vital Religious Community in the 21st Century

by Anthony Healy

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Overview

Tales of demise and decline have come to characterize news on the state of religion and congregations in America. In The Postindustrial Promise, author Anthony Healy finds that the changes in religious life and among congregations are being misunderstood. Instead of seeing the changes as the result of the presumed aspects of postmodern life—individualism, the collapse of social groups, and the scrapping of tradition—Healy sees what has occurred as a postindustrial transformation, in which an economy based on manufacturing has been replaced by one based on corporate and consumer services. This transformation has changed what we value and how we live, as well as how we work. It has also changed congregations and religious life, but not necessarily in the way that many people think. Contrary to the stories of decline, Healy finds that in this time of postindustrial dislocation people are again putting down religious roots. Congregations are making it possible for people to reconnect with the stories and traditions of previous generations and have become the places in society where the reembodying of religious and cultural narratives is taking place. Different from the postmodern script, this postindustrial explanation leads us to fresh insights into the change that has occurred among religious bodies, their congregants, and their communities. This book provides pastors, lay leaders, teachers, scholars, and seminarians with a solid grounding in the basic aspects of the postindustrial transformation and offers direction to help religious leaders develop responsive and viable places of ministry, mission, and program in this time of change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566992879
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/01/2005
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 6.04(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Anthony Healy is president of Visions-Decisions,Inc., an Atlanta-base consulting firm that provides demographic and congregational studies for individual churches, regional judicatories, and denominational bodies. Healy is a trained demographer with extensive knowledge, experience, and training in religious and social science fields. He has also worked in journalism, research, and marketing.
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