Allocating Local Church Funds to Benevolence: The Impact of Congregational Size

Declines in benevolence payments among mainline Protestant denominations have caused much theorizing, but have evoked relatively few statistical studies. We know that the percent of congregational receipts being sent on to synodical and national church bodies is falling. We know that increasingly la...

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Main Author: Stonebraker, Robert J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2003
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2003, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-58
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