Tag: Churching of America
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The Decline of Mainline Denominations …. for 150 Years?
Common knowledge has it that the decline of Mainline denominations began in the 1960s. There is little dispute that membership counts had been moving upward until that decade and then began to decline. However, Roger Finke and Rodney Stark in The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy suggest that Mainline…