Unrestricted.2016-11-142011-02-182016-11-141998-12http://hdl.handle.net/2346/19984Two official church publications, as cultural projects of human agents, are analyzed to determine the extent to which they promote sacralism. Qualitative assessment, classification of cover art and investigation of the amount of god language support the notion that some church leadership promotes sacralism more than others. This project is the beginning of a reworking of secularization theory, critiquing the tendency toward reification and shifting the focus to human agency, ascertainable through the cultural products of church leadership.application/pdfengGospel Advocate (Nashville Tenn.)Presbyterian Survey (Atlanta Ga.)Presbyterian ChurchChurches of ChristChristian sociologySecularization (Theology)Thesis