In sharp contrast, conservative Protestants, including evangelical, fundamentalist, charismatic and Pentecostal church groups, were, in general, flourishing. While these churches also reflected the imprint of the Age of Self, they retained their faith in “the life above” and preached it. Signs of this were found in surveys of the nation’s 500 fastest-growing Protestant churches, in the growth of many of the smaller evangelical denominations, and in the phenomenal growth of independent nondenominational “megachurches.” To take one striking example during this age, the Pentecostal Assemblies of
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