Examining Website-Based Mission Statements of Traditionally Black Methodist Denominational Churches in the Top Ten Cities for African Americans in the United States.
Textual analysis was conducted in order to examine the usage of and messages communicated through mission statements found on the websites of traditionally Black Methodist denominational churches. The churches sampled are in the ten United States cities Forbes cited as being the best economically fo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 28 - 41 |
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