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>> ix List of Figures 1.1: Saddleback’s “5 Circles of Commitment” 15 3.1: Percentage of evangelical religious adherence by region, 1980–2008 54 3.2: Megachurches by region, 2005 and 2007 55 3.3: Megachurches in self-described urban location 56 3.4: Scatter plot of 25 largest U.S. megachurches, measured by level of adherence to postdenominational evangelicalism and their driving distance from their metropolitan core 57 3.5: Postsuburban transformation of the classic urban concentric ring model 61 4.1: Saddleback Church visitor information card 74 4.2: Saddleback Church, Worship Center 75 4.3: Saddleback Church, Children’s Ministries Complex 75 4.4: Saddleback Church, Head Office Complex 76 4.5: Saddleback Church, The Refinery 76 5.1–5.3: Scenes from a promotional video for small groups at Northridge Church 102 7.1: Percent change in self-reported ethnicity of residents from 2000, Orange County, CA 150 7.2: Percent change child population from 2000, Orange County, CA 151 7.3: Percentage of Orange County votes in U.S. presidential elections 151 7.4: Percentage of Orange County votes in U.S. senatorial elections 152 7.5: Percentage of Orange County votes in U.S. congressional elections 152 This page intentionally left blank ...

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