Measuring Religious Identification in the United States

A popular measure of religious identification poses several problems for researchers because of its lack of conceptual and historical grounding. The scheme truncates continuity along the well-established sect-church continuum, and poses problems for both theory and methodological operationalization....

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Authors: Woodard-Lehman, Derek Alan (Author) ; Sherkat, Darren E. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 779-794
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Religious community / Identification / Religious identity / Measurability
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B methodological operationalization
B Protestant classification
B religious identification
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