Hadden, Jeffrey K. and Longino, Jr. Charles F. . Gideon's Gang: A Case Study Of The Church In Social Action / Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles F. Longino, Jr.
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  • Front Matter
  • Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"
  • Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Crucible of Crisis:
    • Section Where Are the Churches?: Denominational Response to Crisis
    • Section Don't Just Stand There: The Miami Presbytery Responds
  • Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 In the Beginning: The Genesis of the Congregation
    • Section Passive Resistance to Early Organizational Efforts
    • Section . . . And Ask Questions Later: Instant Action Without Organization
    • Section . . . And Now You Come at Noon: Organizational Postponement Analyzed
    • Section Getting Their Thing Together: Internal Dissension over Goals
    • Section The Providential Loophole: Union Church
  • Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Parental Disappointment: The Problem of Goals
    • Section One Meeting, Two Agendas: Divergent Definitions of Mission
    • Section One Man's Meat ...; Initial Recruitment and Goal Definition
    • Section What Might Have Been: A Post Hoc Scenario
    • Section Failure by Default or Subversion?
    • Section Unintended Consequences of Purposive Social Action: A Blunder
    • Section Live or Let Die: An Administrative Dilemma
  • Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 At War with the Angels: The United People Campaign
    • Section Physician Heal Thyself: The United Fund Comes Under Attack
    • Section United People Strategy Reconsidered
  • Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Gideon's Gang Marches Again: The Gulf Boycott
    • Section Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Gulf Boycott Coalition
    • Section The Potentially Prodigious Snowball: Interpreting GBC Strategy
  • Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 The Question of Strategy: Conflict in Context
    • Section A Dramaturgical Model for Interpreting Action and Conflict
    • Section Symbiosis: The Congregation and the Media
    • Section But What of Conflict and Christian Theology?
  • Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Organizational Imperatives: The Internal Dynamics of the Congregation
  • Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Successful in Life: The Cincinnati Experiment
    • Section We Gather Together: Forming a Congregation
    • Section The Bible Says . . . : Interpreting Social Action
    • Section You Scratch My Back and . . . . : Reciprocity and Accountability
    • Section On Death and Dying: Terminating an Experimental Congregation
  • Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 Toughing Out the Storm
    • Section To Conservatives with Love . . . From 475
    • Section The Dayton Congregation for Reconciliation Under Kelley's Microscope
  • Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 Quo Vadis: Whither Liberal Protestantism?
    • Section Models and Strategies for Social Action: Pondering the Future
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