Congregational Diversity and Attendance in a Mainline Protestant Denomination

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 668-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Dougherty ◽  
Brandon C. Martinez ◽  
Gerardo Martí
Keyword(s):  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
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

The Lives and Times of Rev. Dr. Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dikgang Moseneke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Mainline Protestant

 This article sets out to explore and celebrate the influential role that Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba played as a minister in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA), the largest mainline Protestant denomination in South Africa. Not only does this essay discusses the background of Mogoba; it also explores his ministry. Furthermore, the essay navigates the place of the MCSA in the epoch of apartheid in South Africa; as well as the possible role of the black church in the present-day South Africa. 

Theology Matters: Comparing the Traits of Growing and Declining Mainline Protestant Church Attendees and Clergy

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Millard Haskell ◽  
Kevin N. Flatt ◽  
Stephanie Burgoyne
Keyword(s):  
Protestant Church ◽  
Mainline Protestant

Negotiating 'Plainness' and Gender: Dancing and Apparel at Christian Weddings in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1913-1944

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Urban-Mead
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
World War ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Brethren In Christ ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Brethren In Christ Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Teaching

AbstractThis article analyzes the phenomena of dancing and wedding apparel in weddings of rural members of an unusual Protestant denomination of Anabaptist origins in Matabeleland, colonial Zimbabwe. The focus is on gendered aspects of African Christian adaptation of mission teaching amongst Ndebele members of the Brethren in Christ Church. The church in North America was firm at home on the matter of dancing (it was forbidden), and internally conflicted regarding men's garb. In the decades preceding World War II, African members of the church embraced fashionable dress for grooms and dancing at wedding feasts as common practice at BICC weddings. However, in a gendered pattern reflecting Ndebele, colonial and mission ideas of women's subjection, African women's bridal wear adhered to church teaching on Plainness, while African men's did not.

Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers.

Social Forces ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 1132
Author(s):  
Wade Clark Roof ◽  
Dean R. Hoge ◽  
Benton Johnson ◽  
Donald A. Luidens
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Mainline Protestant

scholarly journals "To read the signs of the time": Ukrainian baptist theology in light of the social transformations challenges in Ukraine and the russian-Ukrainian war

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Ganna Anatoliivna Tregub
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Trigger Factor ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Country Life ◽  
Baptist Theology ◽  
Complete Process

This article describes present day reaction of Ukrainian Baptist community on the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine and its reflection in first modern independent theological steps of named Late Protestant denomination. It is stressed, that complete process of theology creation is a maker of healthy and protected, factually free religious life in certain boundaries of country or land. Also it’s shown that in Ukrainian case for present day’s start of the modern Baptist theology discourse the trigger factor was Revolution of dignity 2013-2014 and de-facto Russian-Ukrainian ongoing war. Ideas and practices raising up in their environment mark how all this impacts the whole Ukrainians and members of Ukrainian Baptist Churches, do they feel themselves as responsible citizens of their country, would they react or not on realities of their country life or not, and do they think about question of their identity (Ukrainian Baptists of Baptists in Ukraine). This entire things signal about deeper processes of final institutionalization of named denomination, its entry into democratic era together with state

After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Numbers Game ◽  
Mainline Protestant

This chapter addresses the question of why “mainline” Protestant churches experienced a dramatic loss of numbers from the mid-1960s through the early twenty-first century, while the evangelical churches grew. It argues that evangelicals triumphed in the numbers game by continuing to espouse several ideas about race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and divinity that remained popular with the white public when these same ideas were abandoned by leaders of the mainline, ecumenical churches as no longer defensible. The chapter also considers the historical significance of ecumenical Protestantism for U.S. history since World War II. It argues that it facilitated an engagement with many aspects of a diverse modernity that millions of Americans would not have achieved without the support and guidance of the ecumenical churches.

An Independent Lot

Rough Country ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The One

This chapter discusses Texas politics and religion in the twenty-first century. Republicans could count on winning in nearly any national election and in an increasing number of local elections. The contests were less between Republicans and Democrats than between moderate and conservative Republicans. The state's largest Protestant denomination was still Southern Baptist, but its members remained divided between moderates and conservatives, and local autonomy increasingly meant pastors of mega-sized congregations influencing both the denomination and local communities. Denominational identities were less important than informal alliances among the leaders of conservative evangelical congregations who regarded themselves as the true adherents of biblical doctrine, on the one hand, and similar networks among progressive faith communities that emphasized inclusivity, on the other hand.

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