This seminar focuses and capitalizes on the intersection of two recent trends in American religion and American religious studies, the rapidly growing new literature in "Congregational studies" and the increasing diversification of local religious institutions in the U.S. Religious institutions in the U.S. have become more diverse in the past generation in part because of the burgeoning of seeker congregations and the growing presence of non-Christian faiths in the U.S. but also because of the rapidly growing presence of religious institutions serving Christian immigrants from non-European backgrounds. Especially significant for Christian scholars is the extent to which social change is bringing about not the de-Christianization of American society but the de-Europeanization of American Christianity.
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- Seminars in Christian Scholarship
- Calvin College
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- Grand Rapids MI 49546-4402
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- seminars@calvin.edu