Managing God's business : religious and faith-based organizations and their management /: religious and faith-based organizations and their management. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Malcolm Torry.
• Other Names: Torry, Malcolm, 1955-
• Contents: Introduction: An emerging field : the management of religious and faith-based organizations -- Defining religious and faith-based organizations and defining them as voluntary organizations -- How to study religious and faith-based organizations -- Secularization -- Congregations : how they work and how they change -- Federations of congregations : sects, denominations, churches, and more -- Governance of religious organizations -- Faith-based organizations -- Membership in religious organizations -- The clergy : priests or professionals? -- Religious and faith-based organizations : essential elements of civil society -- Leadership in religious and faith-based organizations.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 206/.5; Religious institutions -- Management; Institutions religieuses -- Gestion; Religious institutions -- Management; Religieuze instellingen; Management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351920568; 1351920561
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.