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Provides a new “mapping” of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. The authors document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Legacy of the Sixties
2. The New Voluntarism
3. The Fragmented Mainline
4. The Social Sources of Denominationalism Revisited
5. The Demography of Religious Change
6. Mainline Morality
7. The Future of the Mainline
Appendix: The General Social Survey and the Religious Groupings
Notes
Index

American Mainline Religion Its Changing Shape and Future

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      Publisher: MW - Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813512167, 978-0813512167
      ISBN10: 0813512166

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides a new “mapping” of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. The authors document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures
      List of Tables
      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      1. The Legacy of the Sixties
      2. The New Voluntarism
      3. The Fragmented Mainline
      4. The Social Sources of Denominationalism Revisited
      5. The Demography of Religious Change
      6. Mainline Morality
      7. The Future of the Mainline
      Appendix: The General Social Survey and the Religious Groupings
      Notes
      Index

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