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Author:	Robert Wuthnow	Publisher:	Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
ISBN-10:	019511020X	Subject:	Religion & Spirituality
ISBN-13:	9780195110203	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1997	Condition:	Good
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At a time when already overworked clergy are being called upon by budget cutting politicians to do more for the poor, the sick, and the elderly, American churches are suffering persistent financial shortfalls. Why are American's churches in financial distress? Robert Wuthnow, a leading commentator on religious life in America, asserts that the steady drop in donations, volunteering, and personal involvement is a direct result of a spiritual crisis - a crisis caused in large part by the clergy's failure to address the vital relationships between faith and money, work, stewardship, giving, and economic justice. In The Crisis in the Churches, Wuthnow offers a searching study of this financial crisis and of the spiritual malaise that has silently grown worse during the past decade. To do this, he lets the churches speak for themselves, quoting extensively from interviews with clergy and laity in sixty Protestant and Catholic congregations throughout the U.S., and drawing from the texts of over 200 sermons, from church financial records, and a national survey. What emerges is that parishioners often feel the church does not care about what they do from Monday to Friday, offers no guidance in their most pressing day-to-day concerns, yet always seems to be asking for more money. Although the situation is critical, Wuthnow finds much cause for hope. He points to ideas and programs that some churches have enacted to challenge their members to think differently about work and money and giving. Parishioners sometimes respond positively when clergy speak boldly and concretely about matters of faith and finance, and some churches have formed small groups whose members meet regularly to discussissues of spirituality, work, personal finances, and stewardship.
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The churches themselves, Wuthnow argues, are partially to blame for their financial woes. As he has shown in God and Mammon in America (1994), church members who hear sermons on stewardship give more to their churches. He reprises that evidence here. . . . Paradoxically, Wuthnow claims that churches would have money to help the poor . . . if they focused more squarely on some of the real needs of their middle-class constituency. . . . The Crisis in the Churches is a must-read for pastors, pastoral associates, parish councils and finance committees. The issue Wuthnow raises about the ineptitude of pastoral ministers in finding ways to help people to address economics as it affects their daily lives is very real indeed. . . . It would be a dister religiously and culturally if the churches continue to lose touch with a deeper theology of stewardship. Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. Coleman The Crisis in the Churches, authored by a sociologist, appears to be a misfit in a historical journal. There is little about the longer past in the book. Little moral injunctions and sermons punctuate the pages. Yet historians interested in the soul of America and the souls of Americans will discern why this book is an appropriate choice for review. Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton University professor and director of the Center for the Study of American Religion, works with historians there. His sociological writing is historically informed. . . . Wuthnow casts his account against the background of religious prosperity at midcentury, but otherwise he concentrates on the present generation. He suggests that the financial fate of religious organizations has a bearing on much in the culture. . . . Human services in a time of welfare cutbacks are jeopardized if religion is in crisis. Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. Marty

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The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe

Robert Wuthnow

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	019511020X
Publication Date:	1997-03-06
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA

Pages:	304
Height:	0.9900 inches
Width:	6.3800 inches
Weight:	1.2600 pounds

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