A shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing most Americans believe in God or a higher power. This new volume highlights even more hot-button issues of religious life in our country. A must-read for anyone interested in Americans' religious beliefs and practices.
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What Americans Really Believe
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- Cover
- Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Congregations
- 1. Church-going: Labels Matter
- 2. Church Growth: Competing for Members
- 3. Strict Churches: The Reasons for Their Popularity
- 4. The “Scattered” Church: Traditional Congregations Are Not Going Away
- 5. Megachurches: Supersizing the Faith
- Part II. Beliefs and Practices
- 6. Religious Experiences: God Told Me to Go to Church
- 7. Gender: Women Believe More, Pray More
- 8. Heaven: We Are All Going
- 9. God: Love, Anger, and Commitment
- 10. Evil: Did Sin Cause the Hurricane?
- 11. Spirituality: Religion and Spirituality Are Not Mutually Exclusive
- 12. Giving: The Rich, the Poor, and the Widow’s Mite
- 13. Personality: Are We Hardwired for God?
- Part III. Atheism and Irreligion
- 14. Atheism: The Godless Revolution That Never Happened
- 15. Credulity: Who Believes in Bigfoot?
- 16. New Age Adherents: Well-Educated, Formerly Irreligious Elites
- 17. The Irreligious: Simply Unchurched—Not Atheists
- Part IV. The Public Square
- 18 Faith and Politics 149Is There a Secret Plot of Evangelicals to Take Over the American Government?
- 19. Merry Christmas, Jesus: It’s Okay to Put Sacred Symbols in Public Space
- 20. Incivility: Talking about Faith in Public
- 21 Religious-Media Consumption 167The Da Vinci Code Effect
- 22. Civic Participation: Faith as Social Capital
- 23. Going to College, Getting a Job: What Happens When Mom and Dad Take Their Kids to Church
- Epilogue: Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) at Baylor
- Notes
- Contributors
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