Religious Pluralism and US Church Membership: A Reassessment

This paper argues that church membership rates are lower in contemporary US counties having greater religious pluralism and that the same negative relationship is found in most historical data on US church membership. Finke and Stark find a positive relationship but in most cases only after statisti...

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Main Author: Olson, Daniel V. A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1999
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1999, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-173
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