TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torry,Malcolm
TI  - Managing religion: the management of Christian religious and faith-based organizations
SN  - 9781137394668
AV  - BL632 .M363 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Religious institutions
KW  - Management
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1. The Christian Religion is its Organizations --; 2. Secular Management Theory --; 3. Managing Story and Culture --; 4. Managing Members and Volunteers --; 5. Managing Strategy --; 6. Managing Groups --; 7. Managing Governance --; 8. Managing Christian Clergy; 2; b
N2  - Religion is an increasingly significant factor in our society, so understanding religious and faith-based organizations is more important than ever. Until now Malcolm Torry's "Managing God's Business" has been the only wide-ranging survey of the characteristics of religious and faith-based organizations. Now, in his first of two volumes, Managing Religion: "The Management of Religious Organizations" offers the first comprehensive discussion of the management of religious and faith-based organizations (in this case of Christian ones). Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence; a study of modern religious and faith-based organizations and their management based on classic and recent research literature, and where necessary on new theory; and an exploration of aspects of secular management theory that might or might not be appropriate to the management of religious and faith-based organizations. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in the management of organizations in the vast and increasingly important religious sector
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