Title: Demography, culture, and the decline of America's Christian denominations /
Authors: Hawley, George
Year: 2017
Subjects: Christian sects United States History; Christian sects United States History; Christian sects; United States Church history; United States Church history; United States
Contents: The state of Christianity in America -- Demographic transition: what we know -- Economic and technological causes of demographic transition -- Cultural causes of demographic transition -- Why people abandon Christianity -- Family patterns and denomination decline -- Diversity, devotion, and politics: other explanations for denomination decline -- Denominational divides in American history and today -- The Roman Catholic Church -- Baptists -- Methodists -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Lutherans -- Presbyterians -- Episcopalians -- Pentecostals.