American religion: Contemporary trends

American Religion: Contemporary Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chaves, Mark ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (17)

1. Kirk Hadaway, Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves, "What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance," American Sociological Review 58 (1993): 741-52.
2. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
3. Tom W. Smith, "Religious Change around the World," General Social Survey Cross-National Report No. 30 (Chicago: National Opinion Research Center 2009);
4. David Voas, "Th e Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe," European Sociological Review 25 (2009): 155-68.
5. Brooks E. Holifield, "Towards a History of American Congregations," 23-53 in American Congregations, Volume 2: New Perspectivesin the Study of Congregations, ed. by James P. Wind and James W. Lewis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).1. "Religion Reported by the Civilian Population of the United States: March 1957," Current Population Reports: Population Characteristics. Series P-20, no. 79, released February 2 (United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1958). 2. Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout, Century of Diff erence, 193-94.
6. For more on Protestant decline, see Tom W. Smith and Seokho Kim, "The Vanishing Protestant Majority," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44 (2005): 211-23.
7. For more detail about correlations between worship style and education, see Mark Chaves, Congregations in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), chapter 5.
8. Stanley Presser and Mark Chaves, "Is Religious Service Attendance Declining?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46 (2007): 417-23.
9. The population growth rate is from Laura B. Shrestha, "The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States," Congressional Research Service Report for Congress (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, updated 5 May 2006).
10. Stanley Presser and Mark Chaves, "Is Religious Service Attendance Declining?" 421.
11. Combining the 2000-8 General Social Surveys, the average age of adults who say they attend religious services at least weekly is 50 years.
12. The seminary numbers are from Jackson W. Carroll, God's Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2006), 72-73. The other numbers, as usual, are from the National Congregations Study and the General Social Survey
13. Carroll, God's Potters, 69.
14. For more on the income and gender gaps, see Fiorina et al., Culture War? 95-105 (on gender) and 134-38 (on income).
15. The Gallup numbers are from Charles M. Blow, "Americans Move to the Middle" (New York Times, July 26, 2008, A27).
16. The estimate that half of America's social capital lies in religion comes from Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 66.
17. The post-9/11 uptick in attendance and its disappearance are described in Andrew Walsh, "Returning to Normalcy," Religion in the News 5 (Spring 2002), downloaded on 1 June 2010 from www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol5No1.