Religion in America
- ISBN-10
- 0520968921
- ISBN-13
- 9780520968929
- Series
- Religion in America
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-04
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Lisa D. Pearce, Claire Chipman Gilliland
Description
Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing.
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