The megachurch is an exceptional recent religious trend, certainly within Christian spheres. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives.

Foreword  David G. Bromley Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Megachurch Phenomenon  Stephen Hunt Part 1: Megachurches in Perspective  1 Seeking Souls, Selling Salvation: A History of the Modern Megachurch  Charity Rakestraw  2 The Growth of the Megachurch  David E. Eagle  3 Toward a Typology of the Megachurch  J. Gordon Melton  4 Megachurches and Popular Culture: On Enclaving and Encroaching  Simon Coleman and Saliha Chattoo  5 “Your Church Can Grow!” – A Contextual Theological Critique of Megachurches  Martyn Percy Part 2: Dynamics and Trajectories  6 Megachurches in the Religious Marketplace  Marc von der Ruhr  7 Megachurches as Total Environments  James K. Wellman Jr., Katie E. Corcoran and Kate J. Stockly  8 Megachurches as Educational Institutions  Mark J. Cartledge  9 Horse and Carriage? Megachurches and Revivalism  Stephen Hunt  10 ‘The Evangelisation of the Nation, the Revitalisation of the Church and the Transformation of Society’: Megachurches and Social Engagement  Andrew Davies Part 3: Global Contexts  11 Megachurches and ‘Reverse Mission’  Richard Burgess  12 Megachurches in Canada  Michael Wilkinson and Peter Schuurman  13 Megachurches in Russia and Other parts of the former Soviet Union  Torsten Löfstedt  14 Global, ‘Glocal’ and Local Dynamics in Calvary Temple: India’s Fastest Growing Megachurch  Jonathan D. James  15 Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness: The Salvation Economy of African Mega-Churches  Asonzeh Ukah  Index