Mark T Mulder
Biographic Data
| ID | 95186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark T Mulder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulder |
| SIGNATURE | MULDER M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Calvin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hartmut Rosa and the Megachurch Ministry of Robert H. Schuller: Does Acceleration and Resonance Explain Congregational Innovation
Ecclesiologists are increasingly turning to the theory of sociologist Hartmut Rosa to resource their analysis of congregations about broader social change. Rosa’s concepts of ‘acceleration’ and ‘resonance’ are especially noteworthy, in addition to his call for the ‘dynamic stabilization’ of organizations, acknowledging greater effort required to maintain the status quo. In our narrative, Rosa’s theorizing is applied to understanding the ecclesial…
Capital and the Cathedral: Robert H. Schuller's Continual Fundraising for Church Growth
Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, appeared to be the model of growth and stability among megachurches-until it imploded. Drawing on archival material and interviews, this article demonstrates how the seeming success of Schuller's church growth philosophy was built on a precarious structure that demanded the continual management of flows of capital. In Schuller's vision, a church's capacity must always exceed a le…
Worshipping Local? Congregation Proximity, Attendance, and Neighborhood Commitment
The growth of suburban and exurban areas pushed many Americans into commuter lifestyles. People drive automobiles to work, to shop, to play, and presumably to worship. Yet, recent decades have birthed a countermovement that pulls people back to urban centers and an emphasis on local environments, i.e. to "go local." Recognizing these centrifugal and centripetal forces, this study seeks to answer two interrelated questions: Are Americans traveling…
The Strategic Practice of 'Fiesta' in a Latino Protestant Church: Religious Racialization and the Performance of Ethnic Identity
Founded and led by a U.S.-born white pastor, Amor Poderoso is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in El Paso, Texas, almost entirely composed of Mexican-Americans, recent Mexican immigrants, and current Mexican citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, supplemented with interviews with pastors, worship leaders, and attendees, reveal that much of congregational life orients around intentionally showcasing 'Mexican' culture throug…
Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure
Since World War II, historians have analyzed a phenomenon of “white flight” plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One of the most interesting cases of “white flight” occurred in the Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, left the city in the 1960s and 1970s and relocated their churches to nearby suburbs. In Shades of White Fli…
The growth and diversity of Latino Protestants in America
Latino Protestants in America are growing-fast. More and more Latinos identify as Protestant, Latino Protestant churches are spreading, and Latino Protestant parachurch organizations are broadening their representation and outreach. We synthesize the latest research on Latino Protestants in the United States in relation to history, sociodemographics, conversion, and race/ethnic identity formation. We argue that Latino Protestants are far from mon…
Global Pentecostalism and Ethnic Identity Maintenance among Latino Immigrants
Protestantism has been considered particularly weak for sustaining ethnic boundaries among immigrants. Recognizing the global adaptability and indigenization of Pentecostalism, however, we expect that immigrants from more pentecostal nations will likely retain their Protestantism in ways that affirm their ethnic identity. Using ethnographic data, our research demonstrates how a Guatemalan pentecostal church in Oregon successfully preserves its ho…
Intersectionality in Intentional Communities: The Struggle for Inclusivity in Multicultural U.S. Protestant Congregations
White Evangelical Congregations in Cities and Suburbs: Social Engagement, Geography, Diffusion, and Disembeddedness
In the United States, white evangelicalism has long been associated with both suburbanization and proselytization. However, the way that religious groups understand and engage broader culture may change based on time and context. Drawing on 158 interviews from attenders of 46 evangelical congregations in Grand Rapids, MI, we analyze how these congregations differentially engage their urban and suburban neighborhoods. The vast majority of white ev…
New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism , by Wes Markofski
Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing
In Ambivalent Miracles, political scientist Nancy Wadsworth enhances the scholarship regarding the complicated dynamics of white evangelicals and their understanding of racial disparities in the United States. Wadsworth employs a mixed-methods approach that includes secondary data, content analysis, and ethnography. She traces a path that sees white evangelicals travelling from a theological conservatism that held a defensive posture regarding ra…
Executive Summaries
This reflective practice article examines lessons learned from community-based substance abuse prevention efforts in the faith community and describes how those lessons will shape the work of the Assistance for Substance Abuse Prevention Center
Evangelical Church Polity and the Nuances of White Flight: A Case Study from the Roseland and Englewood Neighborhoods in Chicago
Present patterns of residential segregation have been proven to have antecedents in the so-called white flight of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Close scrutiny of this social phenomenon has yielded results that indicate complicated impetuses and call into question sweeping assumptions about white flight. A case study of seven congregations from a denomination called the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) who left the Englewood and Ros…
The Role of the Congregation in Community Service: A Philanthropic Case Study
The Family Leadership Initiative (FLI), part of the larger Gatherings of Hope Initiative, was a collaboratively designed program to strengthen families and improve children’s education in Grand Rapids, Mich
Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination
Journal Article Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination Get access Kevin D. Dougherty, Kevin D. Dougherty Direct correspondence to: Kevin D. Dougherty, Department of Sociology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark T. Mulder Mark T. Mulder Search for other work…
Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination
Journal Article Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination Get access Kevin D. Dougherty, Kevin D. Dougherty Direct correspondence to: Kevin D. Dougherty, Department of Sociology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark T. Mulder Mark T. Mulder Search for other work…
Worshipping Local? Congregation Proximity, Attendance, and Neighborhood Commitment
The growth of suburban and exurban areas pushed many Americans into commuter lifestyles. People drive automobiles to work, to shop, to play, and presumably to worship. Yet, recent decades have birthed a countermovement that pulls people back to urban centers and an emphasis on local environments, i.e. to "go local." Recognizing these centrifugal and centripetal forces, this study seeks to answer two interrelated questions: Are Americans traveling…
The Strategic Practice of 'Fiesta' in a Latino Protestant Church: Religious Racialization and the Performance of Ethnic Identity
Founded and led by a U.S.-born white pastor, Amor Poderoso is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in El Paso, Texas, almost entirely composed of Mexican-Americans, recent Mexican immigrants, and current Mexican citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, supplemented with interviews with pastors, worship leaders, and attendees, reveal that much of congregational life orients around intentionally showcasing 'Mexican' culture throug…
The growth and diversity of Latino Protestants in America
Latino Protestants in America are growing-fast. More and more Latinos identify as Protestant, Latino Protestant churches are spreading, and Latino Protestant parachurch organizations are broadening their representation and outreach. We synthesize the latest research on Latino Protestants in the United States in relation to history, sociodemographics, conversion, and race/ethnic identity formation. We argue that Latino Protestants are far from mon…
Capital and the Cathedral: Robert H. Schuller's Continual Fundraising for Church Growth
Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, appeared to be the model of growth and stability among megachurches-until it imploded. Drawing on archival material and interviews, this article demonstrates how the seeming success of Schuller's church growth philosophy was built on a precarious structure that demanded the continual management of flows of capital. In Schuller's vision, a church's capacity must always exceed a le…
White Evangelical Congregations in Cities and Suburbs: Social Engagement, Geography, Diffusion, and Disembeddedness
In the United States, white evangelicalism has long been associated with both suburbanization and proselytization. However, the way that religious groups understand and engage broader culture may change based on time and context. Drawing on 158 interviews from attenders of 46 evangelical congregations in Grand Rapids, MI, we analyze how these congregations differentially engage their urban and suburban neighborhoods. The vast majority of white ev…
Evangelical Church Polity and the Nuances of White Flight: A Case Study from the Roseland and Englewood Neighborhoods in Chicago
Present patterns of residential segregation have been proven to have antecedents in the so-called white flight of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Close scrutiny of this social phenomenon has yielded results that indicate complicated impetuses and call into question sweeping assumptions about white flight. A case study of seven congregations from a denomination called the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) who left the Englewood and Ros…
Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination
Journal Article Congregational Responses to Growing Urban Diversity in a White Ethnic Denomination Get access Kevin D. Dougherty, Kevin D. Dougherty Direct correspondence to: Kevin D. Dougherty, Department of Sociology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark T. Mulder Mark T. Mulder Search for other work…
Executive Summaries
This reflective practice article examines lessons learned from community-based substance abuse prevention efforts in the faith community and describes how those lessons will shape the work of the Assistance for Substance Abuse Prevention Center
Evangelical Church Polity and the Nuances of White Flight: A Case Study from the Roseland and Englewood Neighborhoods in Chicago
Present patterns of residential segregation have been proven to have antecedents in the so-called white flight of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Close scrutiny of this social phenomenon has yielded results that indicate complicated impetuses and call into question sweeping assumptions about white flight. A case study of seven congregations from a denomination called the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) who left the Englewood and Ros…
The Role of the Congregation in Community Service: A Philanthropic Case Study
The Family Leadership Initiative (FLI), part of the larger Gatherings of Hope Initiative, was a collaboratively designed program to strengthen families and improve children’s education in Grand Rapids, Mich
Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing
In Ambivalent Miracles, political scientist Nancy Wadsworth enhances the scholarship regarding the complicated dynamics of white evangelicals and their understanding of racial disparities in the United States. Wadsworth employs a mixed-methods approach that includes secondary data, content analysis, and ethnography. She traces a path that sees white evangelicals travelling from a theological conservatism that held a defensive posture regarding ra…
New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism , by Wes Markofski
Global Pentecostalism and Ethnic Identity Maintenance among Latino Immigrants
Protestantism has been considered particularly weak for sustaining ethnic boundaries among immigrants. Recognizing the global adaptability and indigenization of Pentecostalism, however, we expect that immigrants from more pentecostal nations will likely retain their Protestantism in ways that affirm their ethnic identity. Using ethnographic data, our research demonstrates how a Guatemalan pentecostal church in Oregon successfully preserves its ho…
Intersectionality in Intentional Communities: The Struggle for Inclusivity in Multicultural U.S. Protestant Congregations
White Evangelical Congregations in Cities and Suburbs: Social Engagement, Geography, Diffusion, and Disembeddedness
In the United States, white evangelicalism has long been associated with both suburbanization and proselytization. However, the way that religious groups understand and engage broader culture may change based on time and context. Drawing on 158 interviews from attenders of 46 evangelical congregations in Grand Rapids, MI, we analyze how these congregations differentially engage their urban and suburban neighborhoods. The vast majority of white ev…
The growth and diversity of Latino Protestants in America
Latino Protestants in America are growing-fast. More and more Latinos identify as Protestant, Latino Protestant churches are spreading, and Latino Protestant parachurch organizations are broadening their representation and outreach. We synthesize the latest research on Latino Protestants in the United States in relation to history, sociodemographics, conversion, and race/ethnic identity formation. We argue that Latino Protestants are far from mon…
Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure
Since World War II, historians have analyzed a phenomenon of “white flight” plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One of the most interesting cases of “white flight” occurred in the Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, left the city in the 1960s and 1970s and relocated their churches to nearby suburbs. In Shades of White Fli…
Capital and the Cathedral: Robert H. Schuller's Continual Fundraising for Church Growth
Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, appeared to be the model of growth and stability among megachurches-until it imploded. Drawing on archival material and interviews, this article demonstrates how the seeming success of Schuller's church growth philosophy was built on a precarious structure that demanded the continual management of flows of capital. In Schuller's vision, a church's capacity must always exceed a le…
Worshipping Local? Congregation Proximity, Attendance, and Neighborhood Commitment
The growth of suburban and exurban areas pushed many Americans into commuter lifestyles. People drive automobiles to work, to shop, to play, and presumably to worship. Yet, recent decades have birthed a countermovement that pulls people back to urban centers and an emphasis on local environments, i.e. to "go local." Recognizing these centrifugal and centripetal forces, this study seeks to answer two interrelated questions: Are Americans traveling…
The Strategic Practice of 'Fiesta' in a Latino Protestant Church: Religious Racialization and the Performance of Ethnic Identity
Founded and led by a U.S.-born white pastor, Amor Poderoso is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in El Paso, Texas, almost entirely composed of Mexican-Americans, recent Mexican immigrants, and current Mexican citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, supplemented with interviews with pastors, worship leaders, and attendees, reveal that much of congregational life orients around intentionally showcasing 'Mexican' culture throug…
Hartmut Rosa and the Megachurch Ministry of Robert H. Schuller: Does Acceleration and Resonance Explain Congregational Innovation
Ecclesiologists are increasingly turning to the theory of sociologist Hartmut Rosa to resource their analysis of congregations about broader social change. Rosa’s concepts of ‘acceleration’ and ‘resonance’ are especially noteworthy, in addition to his call for the ‘dynamic stabilization’ of organizations, acknowledging greater effort required to maintain the status quo. In our narrative, Rosa’s theorizing is applied to understanding the ecclesial…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)