Are Trends Continuing and Should Evangelical Libraries Be Concerned?
This study examines popular Evangelical literature currently available, in order to determine the percentage of the literature that is concerned with psychological issues, human personality, and self-development, respectively. The purpose of the study is to contribute to previous analyses of the change since World War II in Evangelicalism’s attitude toward human personality and the “self” as a result of the influences of modern psychology. The study is a follow-up to research reported (by others) in 1983 which concluded that Evangelicalism’s symbolic boundaries were being eroded and its traditions were being recast and reinterpreted in terms of the world view of the dominant secular culture. This study seeks to determine if these trends are continuing and, by content analysis, to determine if the content of Evangelical self-development literature has changed in recent years. The study’s objective is to contribute to an understanding of the distinctiveness, if any, of current Evangelica
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