The churching of America, 1776-2005 : winners and losers in our religious economy /

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 researc...

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Main Authors: Finke, Roger, 1954- (Author), Stark, Rodney (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©2005.
מהדורה:2nd ed.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhwnc
תוכן הענינים:
  • A new approach to American religious history
  • The Colonial era revisited
  • The upstart sects win America, 1778-1850
  • The coming of the Catholics, 1850-1926
  • Methodists transformed, Baptists triumphant
  • Why unification efforts fail
  • Why "mainline" denominations decline.