Density and Growth in a Congregational Population: Reformed Churches in New York, 1628-2000
How and why religious groups grow are central questions in the study of religion. Previous research largely fails to account for the dynamic relationship between an environment, a religious group, and its growth. We present organizational theory on density dependence to explain this dynamic. We test...
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2008
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Review of religious research
Year: 2008, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 233-250 |
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