Книга Khelen Oliv Belknap Цerkov' na menyayushchemsya rubezhe

Dannaya kniga predstavlyaet soboy detal'noe sotsiologicheskoe issledovanie, posvyashchennoe polozheniyu protestantskikh tserkvey v sel'skikh i gorodskikh rayonakh chetyrekh okrugov, raspolozhennykh v regionu Skalistykh gor i Velikikh ravnin: Biverkhed v Montane, Sheridan v Vayominge, Yunion v Nyu- Meksiko i Khyuiz v Yuzhnoy Dakote. Avtor, s sotrudnikami Komiteta po sotsial'nym i religioznym obsledovaniyam, analiziruet vliyanieekonomicheskikh, demograficheskikh i sotsial'nykh izmeneniy nareligioznuyu zhizn' poselentsev-gomerstderov. V rabote rassmatrivayutsya istoricheskiy kontekst osvoeniya zapadnykh zemel', razvitie transporta, shkol'noy sistemy, sel'skoxozyaystvennykh byuro ikooperativnogo dvizheniya. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno analizu tserkovnykh budzhetov, chislennosti chlenov obshchin, metodov evangelizatsii, rabotavozdeli-skikh i molodyozhnykh organizatsiy, a takzheprobleme chastoy smeny i nedostatka professional'nykh svyashchennikov. Na osnove sobrannykh dannykh avtor pokazivaet, chto tserkov' na rubezhe stalkivaetsya s trudnostyami iz-za razdroblennosti, tsirkulyatsii naseleniya i otsutstviya innovatsionnykh podkhodov, odnako obladayet bol'shim potentsialom v sluchae primeneniya kontseptsii rasshirennogo prikhoda. Kniga snabzhena mnozhestvom kart, diagramm i statisticheskikh tablits, illyustriruyushchikh religioznuyu i sotsial'nuyu kartinu Ameriki nachala XX veka.