Why conservative churches are growing
A Study in Sociology of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24199874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean M Kelley |
| Year | 1972 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Why conservative churches are growing (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harper & Row (PUBLISHER) |
| Open Library | OL4584453M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 272 |
20th century · Christian sociology · Christianisme · Church growth · Church history · Église · Églises protestantes · Expansion · Freikirche · Fundamentalisme · Histoire religieuse · Kerkgenootschappen · Protestant churches · Sekte · Sociologie religieuse · Sociology · Sociology, Christian · united states
Protestantism
In the world but not of the world
The Persistent and Exceptional Intensity of American Religion
Why Ecclesiology Cannot Live By Doctrine Alone
Black Church Giving
Fundamental social motives and the varieties of religious experience
Ritual well-being
Go Forth and Multiply
The Center Holds Quite Well
The State of Collective Religiosity in Canada
Contemporary Progressive Christianity and Its Symbolic Ramifications
Conscientious Women
Exvangelical exodus
Practicing Birchism
What do we think about our future and does it matter
Fast‐growing churches
Why religious movements succeed or fail
Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left
Research note
Listing (in Black and White) Some Observations on (Sociological) Thought Reform
Collective Life as the Ground of Implicit Religion
Jewish Identification in Intermarriage
The Role of Church Assemblies in Building a Civil Society
Religion and Rational Choice
Does Strictness Explain the Appeal of Working-Class Conservative Protestant Congregations
What It Means to Be Christian
Why aren't we all hutterites
Dynamics of the Religious Economy
Religion, Context, and Constraint toward Strangers
Religion as a determinant of marital fertility
The Use and Abuse of the Law
Reconsidering Virtuosity
Spiritual Capital
Women and Aging
Fundamentalism et al
Sociological Rational Choice Theory
Blessings and Burdens
La droite religieuse
Euthanasia
The centripetal forces of exponential growth
There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”
The decline of a liberal mainstream church
Conspiracy and The Policy Process
Usos e limites da teoria da escolha racional da religião
Religion as Being
Dual Reference Groups and Political Orientations
The Tenth Leper
The Association between Religiosity and the Purpose-in-Life Test
Disregarding Theology in the Psychology of Religion
The psychosocial climate of religious congregations
Community competence in religious congregations
The conservative church
Dunbar’s Number goes to Church
Religion as a determinant of marital stability
Structural and cultural sources of community in American congregations
Patterns of Religious Mobility Among Black Americans
Region, Religious Commitment, and Life Satisfaction Among Black Americans
Religious Recruitment and the Management of Dissonance
The Religious Affiliations of American Elites, 1930S to 1990S
Whose Promise Kept? Frame Construction within the Promise Keepers
Organizational Liminality and Interstitial Creativity
Conservative Protestantism on the American Scene
Contingency Theory Applied to Religious Organizations
A Market Theory of Religion
Maintaining Orthodoxy in a Modern World
Stark and Finke or Durkheim on Conversion and (Re-)Affiliation
Is Religious Change a Form of Secularization? The Case of the Reformed Churches in The Netherlands
Images of God and Man in a Catholic Charismatic Renewal Community
American Religion in Transition
Church Dropouts
Meaning and Belonging in a Charismatic Congregation
The Election of a Traditional-Family-Values Candidate
Heroin, Hashish, and Hallelujah
Paranormal Beliefs
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
Saints and Seekers
Interpreting Change in American Catholicism
Religion and Justice
Mormonism in Secular Society
In Search of Denominational Subcultures
A Dynamic Model of Church Growth and Its Application to Contemporary Revivals
Toward Disestablishment
Underlife in a Baptist Church
Why Some People May Go Back to Church
Jewish Choices
Religious Effects
Age Differences in Adolescent Religiousness
Religious Leadership, Religious Research and Religious Renewal
Congregations
Loosening the Ties That Bind
The Nature and Sources of Religious Involvement
Religious Subcultures and Political Tolerance
Generations in Tension
Going, Going, Gone
The Popularity of Strict Churches
A sociological account of liberal protestantism
Pastoral Response to the Clinton-Lewinsky Affair in Conservative and Liberal Churches
Why people convert
“I Would Consult a Doctor, But What the Rabbi Says Goes”
Glossolalia and the psychology of the self and narcissism
| Unique citing works | 214 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,13 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2025 (53) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 117 |