Religion as Identity in Postwar America: The Last Serious Attempt to Put a Question on Religion in the United States Census.
The article reports on the controversy surrounding a question proposed for the 1960 United States census and the two year debate over it. In 1956 the Bureau of the Census brought up the ideas of whether or not the 1960 survey would record the religion of respondents, the first time history that the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of American History Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 359 - 385 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2006
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