The churching of America, 1776-2005 : winners and losers in our religious economy / [print]
Roger Finke and Rodney Stark.
- second edition.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2005.
- xv, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
A new approach to American religious history -- The Colonial era revisited -- The upstart sects win America, 1778-1850 -- The coming of the Catholics, 1850-1926 -- Methodists transformed, Baptists triumphant -- Why unification efforts fail -- Why "mainline" denominations decline.