Congregations in America / / Mark Chaves.
More Americans belong to religious congregations than to any other kind of voluntary association. What these vast numbers amount to--what people are doing in the over 300,000 churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples in the United States--is a question that resonates through every quarter of Americ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Do Congregations Do?
- 2 Members, Money, and Leaders
- 3 Social Services
- 4 Civic Engagement and Politics
- 5 Worship
- 6 The Arts
- 7 Culture in Congregations, Congregations in Culture
- 8 Beyond Congregations
- Appendix A: National Congregations Study Methodology
- Appendix B. Selected Summary Statistics from the National Congregations Study
- Notes
- References
- Index