Downtown Metropolitan Churches: Ecological Situation and Response.

Based on three principles from theories of human ecology, this study examines the response of downtown churches in metropolitan Columbus, Ohio to a changing environment. Over 150 years, churches grew in number, stabilized, contracted sharply, and restabilized, changing increasingly from neighborhood...

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Publicado en:Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 271 - 291
Autores principales: Form, William, Dubrow, Joshua
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2005
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        City churches
        Church buildings
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