Secularization and Attribution: How Mainline Protestant Clergy and Congregants Explain Church Growth and Decline
This article analyzes explanations for growth and decline given by 22 clergy and 128 congregants from 21 mainline Protestant churches in Canada, including both growing and declining congregations. Both clergy and congregants attributed growth and decline to a wide range of external and internal caus...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
[2018]
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| In: |
Sociology of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Protestantism
/ Clergyperson
/ Church
/ Member
/ Development
/ Church congregation
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |