Secularization and Attribution: How Mainline Protestant Clergy and Congregants Explain Church Growth and Decline

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin N Flatt ◽  
D Millard Haskell ◽  
Stephanie Burgoyne
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
Mainline Protestant

scholarly journals Mainline Denominational Switching in Canada: Comparing the Religious Trajectories of Growing and Declining Church Attendees

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Millard Haskell ◽  
Stephanie Burgoyne ◽  
Kevin N. Flatt
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Switching Patterns ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Canadian Research ◽  
Mainline Protestant

Based on the survey responses of over 1000 attendees of growing and 1000 attendees of declining Mainline Protestant churches in Canada, this research examines patterns of denominational switching and the characteristics of switchers from both groups. Based on previous Canadian research we hypothesized, among other predictions, that the majority of our Mainline Protestant congregants would never have switched denominations and, of those who had, a plurality would indicate that their previous church was part of another Mainline Protestant denomination. These hypotheses were supported when the responses of growing and declining church attendees were combined but when the responses of the growing church congregants were tabulated separately they were not supported. We show how the switching patterns of the growing Mainline Protestant church congregants are more akin to those of Canadian Conservative Protestant church congregants and we offer explanations as to why this may be the case. Keywords: Religious Switching; Reaffiliation; Church Growth; Mainline Protestant; Conservative Protestant; Canada

After the Revolution

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Price
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Striking Resemblance ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Professional Aspirations ◽  
Seminary Training ◽  
Mainline Protestant ◽  
The Revolution

The post-1960s literature on the mainline Protestant clergy bears a striking resemblance to post-Revolutionary debates in France; a massive and irreversible shift in the ideological landscape has raised the question, “Where next?” Our Old Regime is the Protestant ministry of the 1950s, replete with professional aspirations and exemplified by H. Richard Niebuhr's portrayal of the Pastoral Director. Despite changed social assumptions about ministry, structural continuities in seminary training and church bureaucracies remain far more striking than changes. We are left with a ministerial calling stripped of its professional raison d'ětre by a series of theological critiques that have yet to outline or achieve corresponding structural changes.

The Political Attitudes and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy in the Election of 2000: A Study of Six Denominations

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corwin Smidt ◽  
Sue Crawford ◽  
Melissa Deckman ◽  
Donald Gray ◽  
Dan Hofrenning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
Mainline Protestant

Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
Paul J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
African American Pastors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

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