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Daily Archives: March 17, 2014

By The Numbers: How Many Were There?

Attendance, Resources Frame, SurveysBy R. Stephen WarnerMarch 17, 2014

Question: What can survey research tell us about church attendance? Social scientists have been tracking self-reported religious service attendance for over seventy years. At present, over 40% of adult Americans claim to attend church (or other religious services) nearly every week. That figure is 25% lower than at its peak in the 1950s, but it…

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