Visualizing Change in Ordinal Measures
Religious Attendance in the United States (1972-2018)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2423913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mindy L Wood (0000-0002-1414-8001, Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Pages | 237802311990006 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2378-0231 • E-ISSN: 2378-0231 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2378023119900064 |
| OpenAlex | W2998923655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The figure plots self-reports of religious attendance using data from the General Social Survey (1972-2018), contributing to current debates about how religiosity is changing in the United States by clearly showing the relative increase or decrease of each level of religious attendance over time. The main new insight is that the observed decline in religious attendance in the United States has been driven primarily by a large increase in people reporting never attending religious services and a corresponding decrease in people reporting weekly attendance, rather than uniform changes across different levels. Some categories, such as attendance once a month, have seen virtually no change. More generally, the figure may be used as a template for plotting other ordinal measures over time, such as political attitudes or ideology
Attendance · Church attendance · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
The Persistent and Exceptional Intensity of American Religion
Even Intense Religiosity Is Declining in the United States
The Continuing Persistence of Intense Religion in the United States
Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference
Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |