Trends in U.S. Church Attendance: Secularization and Revival, or Merely Lifecycle Effects?
In an earlier paper published in this journal, Chaves (1989) found that the relative stability in Protestant church attendance in the United States results from the offsetting effects of secularization and revival. The secularization occurs across birth-cohorts, as successive cohorts are less inclin...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 487 - 501 |
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