Context & Culture Winter 1990

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LEADERSHIP asked a number of pastors, seminary professors, and church consultants to recommend the books that best help American churches "exegete" contemporary culture. Taken from their lists, these are just a few of the books that can give churches insight into the people to whom they'll minister in the coming decade.

The People's Religion: American Faith in the 90's

by George Gallup, Jr., and Jim Castelli

Macmillan, 1989

A comprehensive survey of the present American religious landscape. What do Americans want most from their churches? How many Americans have had a religious experience? What percentage believes in God? What percentage prays? Gallup and Castelli answer these and other such questions.

The Clustering of America

by Michael J. Weiss

Harper & Row, 1989

Michael Weiss classifies America not by region or class, but by Zip Codes. Based on an intriguing marketing system, he describes forty neighborhood types - their values, lifestyles, and eccentricities. Whether your church is in a "Furs and Station Wagons" neighborhood or "Norma Rae-ville" or "Smalltown Downtown," it's portrayed here with wit and insight.

200 Predictions for Baby-Boomers: The Next 50 Years

by Cheryl Russell

Plenum, 1987

Cheryl Russell, editor-in-chief of Demographer Magazine, marshals her vast knowledge about the generation born between 1946 and 1964. Making predictions about such areas as the family, work, the home, beliefs, and retirement, she offers insight into the future of the group that now constitutes one-third of the American population.

The Postponed Generation: Why American Youth Are Growing Up Later

by Susan Littwin

William Morrow, 1986

This book probes the minds and hearts of the late baby-boomers and early post-baby-boomers, young adults who in ...

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