TY - GEN T1 - The churching of America, 1776-2005 : winners and losers in our religious economy A1 - Finke, Roger, 1954- A1 - Stark, Rodney LA - English PP - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2005 ED - 2nd ed. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm77539054 AB - In The Churching of America, 1776-2005 Roger Finke and Rodney Stark once again revolutionize the way we think about religion in America. Extending the argument that the nation's religious environment acts as a free market economy, this extensively revised and expanded edition offers new research, statistics, and stories that document increased participation in religious groups in the twenty-first century. Adding to the through coverage of "mainline" religious groups, new chapters chart the remarkable development and growth of African American churches from the early nineteenth century forward. Finke and Stark show how, like other "upstart sects," these churches openly competed for adherents and demonstrate how American norms of religious freedom allowed African American churches to construct organizational havens with little outside intervention. This edition also includes new sections on the ethnic religious communities of recent immigrants-stories that echo those told of ethnic religious enclaves in the nineteenth century. Bringing together timely new information and evidence, this provocative book insists, more than ever, on a major reevaluation of established ideas about American religious institutions. Written with lively prose, it will stir debate within church and academic communities, as well as among laypersons interested in the history of religion in America OP - 347 CN - BR515 .F56 2005eb SN - 0813541131 SN - 9780813541136 SN - 1283591936 SN - 9781283591935 SN - 9780813536330 SN - 0813536332 SN - 9780813535531 SN - 0813535530 KW - United States : Church history. KW - Christian sociology : United States. KW - EĢtats-Unis : Histoire religieuse. KW - RELIGION : Christianity : History. KW - Christian sociology KW - United States KW - Christendom. KW - Church history ER -