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The Future of the Megachurch: An Exploratory Study of the Place for Baby Boomers

Cable, Amber M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1378917973

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2013, Master of Gerontological Studies, Miami University, Gerontology.
As Baby Boomers grow older in the innovative and youth-focused megachurches they largely helped build, questions arise regarding their futures and roles within megachurches. Using the sensitizing framework of age integration, this exploratory study sought to uncover the status of age integration in one megachurch and the implications thereof on the future of Boomers and the church. It is a first step toward addressing the lack of empirical research detailing the state of age integration or the success of age integration initiatives in various organizations. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with nine participants were augmented by limited participant observation and analysis of documents, media, and quantitative secondary survey data. Analysis utilized a grounded theory approach to transforming data that yielded two approaches to community building: categorically and values based communities/environments. Values based approaches were shown to offer greater opportunity for age integration than categorical approaches, which tend to lead to age segregation.
Kathryn McGrew (Committee Chair)
Jennifer Kinney (Committee Member)
James Bielo (Committee Member)
70 p.
Aging; Gerontology; Organizational Behavior; Religion; Religious Congregations; Social Research; Social Structure; Spirituality
Baby Boomers; megachurch; megachurches; aging; community; community building; succession; missional; exploratory; qualitative; age integration; age segregation; aging and society; organizations; age consciousness

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  • Cable, A. M. (2013). The Future of the Megachurch: An Exploratory Study of the Place for Baby Boomers [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1378917973

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cable, Amber. The Future of the Megachurch: An Exploratory Study of the Place for Baby Boomers. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1378917973.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cable, Amber. "The Future of the Megachurch: An Exploratory Study of the Place for Baby Boomers." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1378917973

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