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Nancy T. Ammerman New Life for Denominationalism Christian Century Christian Century Foundation March 15, 2000 Researchers and academic world of religious studies, sociology PhD in sociology from Yale Academic who does research and writing on sociology of religion. Denominations Denomination, identity, tradition College, Graduate School Research/Analytical Ministry, Academic To show the good and bad of denominations at the turn of the 21st century, ultimately showing a positive light for denominational identity. 1. Explains the study of interviews the foundation did across many denominations and regions. 2. Evaluates the results with good and bad. 3. Deals with strengths and weaknesses of denomination, narrative story within the evaluation. 4. Ultimately concluding it is the global mission in the world that gives people and churches a connection to a denomination. Good review of s study on denominational identity and why it is important. It is short (10 pages) and is 14 years old, need a longer updated study on denominational identity. It does not so much come against any idea but embraces the church as being global and finding her identity through denominations. 6 It does a good job of jumpstarting the reader into finding more on denominational identity.