Southern Baptist Migrants and Converts: A Study of Southern Religion in the Urban North
This study focuses upon the membership from eleven Southern Baptist religious groups in Columbus, Ohio. Set in the theoretical scheme of the church-sect typology, a random sample of Baptists from 1963 and 1969 membership lists are described and compared by demographic, socioeconomic and attitude var...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1972
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1972, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 188-195 |
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| Summary: | This study focuses upon the membership from eleven Southern Baptist religious groups in Columbus, Ohio. Set in the theoretical scheme of the church-sect typology, a random sample of Baptists from 1963 and 1969 membership lists are described and compared by demographic, socioeconomic and attitude variables. Findings indicate that over a period of time the Southern Baptists—even with the addition of northern converts—are maintaining a sectarian stance, and that increasingly the Baptist appeal is to persons from rural backgrounds. A pattern of segregation of members into higher and lower socioeconomic groups is established. White-collar groups are churchly by attitude and blue-collar are sectarian. However, one deviation from this pattern is found as sectarian southern migrants more than sectarian northern converts are located in white-collar groups, indicating a greater pattern toward incongruity for migrants than for converts. Implications of the study are that the adding of northern converts to the “dnew” Southern Baptist religious structures in the urban North is of no consequence for organizational change. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710288 |