Understanding Church Growth and decline: 1950-1978 /
Dean R. Hoge.
- 398 páginas : il. ; 23 centímetros
Incluye bibliografía.
Recent trends in church Membership and participation: An introduction. -Research on factors influencing church commitment. -Church Growth and decline in historical perspective: protestant quest for identity, leadership, and meaning. -National contextual factors influencing church trends. -The efficacy of demographic theories of religious change: Protestant church Attendance, 1952-68. -Comparison of trends in ten denominations, 1950-75. -An Examination of the Statistical Growth of the Souther Baptist Convention. -A test of theories of denominational Growth and decline. -Factors producing Growth or decline in united presbyterian congregations. -Performance of united church of christ congregations in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania.