Tag: Roger Finke
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Cost and Benefit in Religious Affiliation
What is the cost-to-benefit payoff of paying for expertise? Years ago, my brother was a business manager for a consulting firm in Houston when business was declining. He concluded after some analysis that the firm’s fees were too low. People expected they must be getting inferior service because of the low price. It took a…
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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…