The churching of America, 1776-2005
Subtitle: winners and losers in our religious economy
By: Roger Finke and Rodney Stark.
Contributors: Stark, Rodney.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Christian sociology -- United States.; United States -- Church history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new approach to American religious history; title: The Colonial era revisited; title: The upstart sects win America, 1778-1850; title: The coming of the Catholics, 1850-1926; title: Methodists transformed, Baptists triumphant; title: Why unification efforts fail; title: Why "mainline" denominations decline.