What Americans really believe : new findings from the Baylor surveys of religion / Rodney Stark with Christopher Bader [and others].

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Main Author: Stark, Rodney
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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Physical Description:vii, 209 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |t Introduction : the stability and diversity of American faith --  |t Congregations.  |t Church-going : labels matter ;  |t Church growth : competing for members ;  |t Strict churches : the reasons for their popularity ;  |t The "scattered" church : traditional congregations are not going away ;  |t Megachurches : supersizing the faith --  |t Beliefs and practices.  |t Religious experiences : God told me to go to church ;  |t Gender : women believe more, pray more ;  |t Heaven : we are all going ;  |t God : love, anger, and commitment ;  |t Evil : did sin cause the hurricane? ;  |t Spirituality : religion and spirituality are not mutually exclusive ;  |t Giving : the rich, the poor, and the widow's mite ;  |t Personality : are we hardwired for God? --  |t Atheism and irreligion.  |t Atheism : the godless revolution that never happened ;  |t Credulity : who believes in Bigfoot? ;  |t New Age adherents : well-educated, formerly irreligious elites ;  |t The irreligious : simply unchurched, not atheists --  |t The public square.  |t Faith and politics : is there a secret plot of evangelicals to take over the American government? ;  |t Merry Christmas, Jesus : it's okay to put sacred symbols in public space ;  |t Incivility : talking about faith in public ;  |t Religious-media consumption : the Da Vinci code effect ;  |t Civil participation : faith as social capital ;  |t Going to college, getting a job : what happens when mom and dad take their kids to church --  |t Epilogue : Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) at Baylor. 
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