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  title info:
    title: High on God
    sub title: how megachurches won the heart of America
  name:
    name part: Wellman, James K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Corcoran, Katie Elaine
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Stockly, Kate J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Church history
  genre: Church history.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
  abstract: Humans are homo duplex, seeking to be individuals but knowing this is only possible in communities. Thus, humans struggle to integrate these two sides of their nature. Megachurches have been enormously successful at resolving this struggle. How do they do it, and what is it about their structure and rituals that makes so many feel as if they are high on God? The affective energies and emotional valences that characterize religious ecstasy are the primary focus of our study of megachurches. Empirically, humans want and desire forms of what Randall Collins calls 'emotional energy.' Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative data on 12 nationally representative megachurches, we identify six desires that megachurches evoke and meet: acceptance, awe and spiritual stimulation, reliable leadership, deliverance, purpose, and solidarity in a community of like-minded others.
  table of contents: Preface: Am I high on God? -- Part I: Desire is the heart of religion. Megachurch: the drug that works -- The problem of cooperation and homo duplex -- Interaction rituals and embodied choice theory -- Defining religion: sacred moral communities -- Megachurch: an American original (almost) -- Congregations in a time of change -- Part II: Pistons of desire and power: cracking the megachurch code. The micro-sociology of interaction rituals within megachurches -- Desire for acceptance and belonging -- Desire for wow, or hacking the happy -- Desire for a reliable leader -- Desire for deliverance -- Desire for purpose in service -- Desire to re-member -- Part III: The dark side of megachurches: how some deceive and destroy. Dissecting megachurch scandals -- Conclusion: havens of health or habitats for the prosperity gospel? -- Postscript from the pews.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: James Wellman, Katie Corcoran, and Kate Stockly.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Big churches
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Church history
  subject:
    topic: Grandes églises (Communautés)
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire religieuse
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
  subject:
    topic: Big churches
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: BV637.9 .W45 2019eb
  classification: 277.3083
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1089905722
  identifier: 9780190053949
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  identifier: 0190065109
  identifier: 9780199827725
  identifier: 0199827729
  identifier: 9780199827718
  identifier: A12FFC3E-E856-45ED-84D6-9FD41819188B OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 190812
    record change date: 20260319181319.7
    record identifier: in00005717600
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng