Table of Contents

Foreword

 David G. Bromley

Notes on Contributors

 Introduction: The Megachurch Phenomenon

 Stephen Hunt



Part 1: Megachurches in Perspective

 1 Seeking Souls, Selling Salvation: A History of the Modern Megachurch

 Charity Rakestraw

 2 The Growth of the Megachurch

 David E. Eagle

 3 Toward a Typology of the Megachurch

 J. Gordon Melton

 4 Megachurches and Popular Culture: On Enclaving and Encroaching

 Simon Coleman and Saliha Chattoo

 5 “Your Church Can Grow!” – A Contextual Theological Critique of Megachurches

 Martyn Percy



Part 2: Dynamics and Trajectories

 6 Megachurches in the Religious Marketplace

 Marc von der Ruhr

 7 Megachurches as Total Environments

 James K. Wellman Jr., Katie E. Corcoran and Kate J. Stockly

 8 Megachurches as Educational Institutions

 Mark J. Cartledge

 9 Horse and Carriage? Megachurches and Revivalism

 Stephen Hunt

 10 ‘The Evangelisation of the Nation, the Revitalisation of the Church and the Transformation of Society’: Megachurches and Social Engagement

 Andrew Davies



Part 3: Global Contexts

 11 Megachurches and ‘Reverse Mission’

 Richard Burgess

 12 Megachurches in Canada

 Michael Wilkinson and Peter Schuurman

 13 Megachurches in Russia and Other parts of the former Soviet Union

 Torsten Löfstedt

 14 Global, ‘Glocal’ and Local Dynamics in Calvary Temple: India’s Fastest Growing Megachurch

 Jonathan D. James

 15 Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness: The Salvation Economy of African Mega-Churches

 Asonzeh Ukah

 Index

About the Author

Stephen Hunt, Ph.D. (2000), University of the West of England , is Associate Professor of the Sociology of Religion at that university. He has published numerous books and articles on contemporary Christianity including both volumes of the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity (Brill).



Contributors are: Richard Burgess, Mark Cartledge, Saliha Chattoo, Simon Coleman, Katie Corcoran, Andrew Davies, David Eagle, Stephen Hunt, Jonathan James, Torsten Löfstedt, Gordon Melton, Martyn Percy, Charity Rakestraw, Peter Schuurman, Kate Stockly, Azoneh Ukah, Marc von der Ruhr, James Wellman, Michael Wilkinson. Foreworded by David Bromley.