Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
In Passing the Plate, Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson, and Patricia Snell point out that, despite their relative affluence, American Christians are not particularly generous in making financial contributions. The primary goal of their book “is to try to better understand and explain American Chr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 130-131 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | In Passing the Plate, Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson, and Patricia Snell point out that, despite their relative affluence, American Christians are not particularly generous in making financial contributions. The primary goal of their book “is to try to better understand and explain American Christians' lack of generosity, from a sociological perspective” (4). In their analysis, Smith et al. rely heavily on secondary analysis of available survey data (e.g., GSS and the U.S. Census), supplemented by a tithing experiment included in the authors' 2006 survey of adult Christian Americans as well as by in-depth, face-to-face interviews with clergy and congregants. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq011 |