Congregational Diversity and Attendance in a Mainline Protestant Denomination

One of the surprising oversights of existing research on racially/ethnically diverse congregations is the inattention to how racial composition relates to patterns of attendance. Is diversity associated with attendance growth, stability, or decline? A popular assumption from the Church Growth Moveme...

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Published in:Journal for the scientific study of religion
Authors: Dougherty, Kevin D. (Author) ; Martinez, Brandon C. (Author) ; Marti, Gerardo 1965- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 668-683
Further subjects:B Attendance
B Denomination
B Congregations
B Growth
B Diversity
B Race
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