Social Forms of Religion : European and American Christianity in Past and Present

Social forms of religion – the ways in which individuals and groups coordinate religious practice – produce community at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences.A mix of group, organization, market exchange, network, event, and/or other forms characterizes different traditions.Shifts in dominant social forms within a religious tradition are catalysts and expressions of religious transformation alike.The contributions to the volume test this argument by presenting Catholic, Protestant, Charismatic/Pentecostal, Orthodox, and Mormon case studies from Europe and the Americas.