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Called to Service: The Changing Institutional Identities of American Denominations

• Wittberg, Patricia

Abstract

This article outlines the ways that religious schools, hospitals, and social service institutions have affected their sponsoring denomination or church group in the past. Three basic channels of influence are described. The institutions impacted the sponsor's very identity and purpose, they defined the requisites of holy activity, and they served as a channel for membership recruitment and leadership development. Implications for denominations and other religious groups of the current attenuation of ties with their former institutions are then explored.

Journal

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

(2000)
vol29 no3 pages357-376

Categories

1. Nonprofit Service Sectors  
2. Faith/Religious Communities  

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