Paul D. Numrich is professor in the Snowden Chair for the Study of Religion and Interreligious Relations, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, professor of World Religions and Interreligious Relations, Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, and visiting scholar, McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Space Sharing

Part One: The Space-Sharing Phenomenon

Chapter One: Extent and Reasons

Chapter Two: Theoretical Framework and Research Methods

Part Two: Space-Sharing Cases

Chapter Three: Congregational Proprietors

Chapter Four: Other Religious Proprietors

Chapter Five: Secular Proprietors

Part Three: Understanding Space Sharing

Chapter Six: The Religion Factor

Chapter Seven: Space-Sharing Takeaways

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Space sharing by groups is widespread in the United States, from commercial partnerships, to government and private sector joint use agreements, to the use of public facilities and commons. All space-sharing arrangements are similar in most respects, so what difference does it make when religious groups are involved?