Qui sono raccolte le fonti che si trovano nei diversi articoli, indicate tra parentesi.

Le citazioni della Sacra Bibbia sono tratte dalla Versione Nuova Riveduta, edita dalla Società Biblica di Ginevra (2006).

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• Bird W. e Thumma S. (2020), Megachurch 2020: The Changing Reality in America’s Largest Churches, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
• Bowler K., Reagan W., (2014) Bigger, Better, Louder: The Prosperity Gospel’s Impact on Contemporary Christian Worship, in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, vol. 24, n.2, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (pp. 186–230)
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• Briggs M. (2018) The Megapopular Churches That Celebrity and Instagram Built, Church Leaders,  https://churchleaders.com/news/330402-the-megapopular-megachurches-that-celebrity-and-instagram-built.html
• Chenoweth N. (2020), Justin Bieber’s pastor Carl Lentz lied to NYC beauty during affair and said he was an unmarried sports agent, The Sun,  https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1761816/justin-bieber-pastor-carl-lentz-affair-lied-sports-agent/
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• Curtis J. (2020), White Evangelicals as a “People”: The Church Growth Movement from India to the United States,in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, vol. 30, n.1, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (pp. 108–146)
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• Flory R. (2018), How California’s Megachurches Changed Christian Culture, The University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture,  https://crcc.usc.edu/how-californias-megachurches-changed-christian-culture/
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