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Understanding church growth and decline, 1950-1978 / edited by Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Pilgrim Press, ©1979.Description: 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0829803580
  • 9780829803587
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.6 19
LOC classification:
  • BV820 .U5
Other classification:
  • 11.72
  • 277.392
Contents:
Recent trends in church membership and participation : an introduction / David A. Roozen and Jackson W. Carroll -- Research on factors influencing church commitment / Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen -- Church growth and decline in historical perspective : Protestant quest for identity, leadership, and meaning / James H. Smylie -- National contextual factors influencing church trends / Dean R. Hoge -- The efficacy of demographic theories of religious change : Protestant church attendance, 1952-68 / David A. Roozen -- Comparison of trends in ten denominations, 1950-75 / Ruth T. Doyle and Sheila M. Kelly -- An examination of the statistical growth of the Southern Baptist Convention / Phillip Barron Jones -- A test of theories of denominational growth and decline / Dean R. Hoge -- Factors producing growth or decline in United Presbyterian congregations / Wade Clark Roof, Dean R. Hoge, John E. Dyble, and C. Kirk Hadaway -- Performance of United Church of Christ congregations in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania / William J. McKinney.
Social change and local churches : 1951-75 / Douglas A. Walrath -- Church growth research : the paradigm and its applications / C. Peter Wagner -- Recovering the church's transforming middle : theological reflections on the balance between faithfulness and effectiveness / Robert A. Evans -- Some sociological conclusions about church trends / Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen -- Is religion a dependent variable? / Dean M. Kelley -- What are the alternatives? / Lyle E. Schaller.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-391) and index.

Recent trends in church membership and participation : an introduction / David A. Roozen and Jackson W. Carroll -- Research on factors influencing church commitment / Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen -- Church growth and decline in historical perspective : Protestant quest for identity, leadership, and meaning / James H. Smylie -- National contextual factors influencing church trends / Dean R. Hoge -- The efficacy of demographic theories of religious change : Protestant church attendance, 1952-68 / David A. Roozen -- Comparison of trends in ten denominations, 1950-75 / Ruth T. Doyle and Sheila M. Kelly -- An examination of the statistical growth of the Southern Baptist Convention / Phillip Barron Jones -- A test of theories of denominational growth and decline / Dean R. Hoge -- Factors producing growth or decline in United Presbyterian congregations / Wade Clark Roof, Dean R. Hoge, John E. Dyble, and C. Kirk Hadaway -- Performance of United Church of Christ congregations in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania / William J. McKinney.

Social change and local churches : 1951-75 / Douglas A. Walrath -- Church growth research : the paradigm and its applications / C. Peter Wagner -- Recovering the church's transforming middle : theological reflections on the balance between faithfulness and effectiveness / Robert A. Evans -- Some sociological conclusions about church trends / Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen -- Is religion a dependent variable? / Dean M. Kelley -- What are the alternatives? / Lyle E. Schaller.

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