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Social forms of religion are communally productive at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences. The contributors to this volume test that argument by examining different social forms Christianity in Europe and the Americas has taken in past and present. They show that these social forms - the ways in which individuals and collectives coordinate to practice their religion - are expressions of religious change on the one hand, and, on the other, also set change in motion and have contributed to growth and decline of various Christian traditions in their respective broader ›religious field‹. The dominant organizational form always competed with the less formalized and hierarchical forms of the group.

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Maren Freudenberg, born in 1983, is a sociologist of religion at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She obtained her PhD in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, where she was a member of the Graduate School of North American Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary religion in the United States, global Charismatic Christianity, the connections between religion and the economy, and theoretical approaches in the sociology of religion. Astrid Reuter, born in 1968, is a professor for religious studies at Universität Münster and principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Religion & Politics. Her main research areas are the history and theory of religious studies, religion and law in Europe, Charismatic Catholicism and African religions in Latin America (with special focus on Brazil).

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