TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoge,Dean R.
AU  - Roozen,David A.
TI  - Understanding church growth and decline, 1950-1978 /edited by Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen
AV  - BV820 .U534 1979
PY  - 1979///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pilgrim Press
KW  - Church membership
KW  - Church growth
N1  - 1 (pages 374-391) and index; Recent trends in church membership and participation : an introduction; David A. Roozen and Jackson W. Carroll  --; Research on factors influencing church commitment; Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen  --; Church growth and decline in historical perspective : Protestant quest for identity, leadership, and meaning; James H. Smylie  --; National contextual factors influencing church trends; Dean R. Hoge  --; The efficacy of demographic theories of religious change : Protestant church attendance, 1952-68; David A. Roozen  --; Comparison of trends in ten denominations, 1950-75; Ruth T. Doyle and Sheila M. Kelly  --; An examination of the statistical growth of the Southern Baptist Convention; Phillip Barron Jones  --; A test of theories of denominational growth and decline; Dean R. Hoge  --; Factors producing growth or decline in United Presbyterian congregations; Wade Clark Roof, Dean R. Hoge, John E. Dyble, and C. Kirk Hadaway  --; Performance of United Church of Christ congregations in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania; William J. McKinney  --; Social change and local churches : 1951-75; Douglas A. Walrath  --; Church growth research : the paradigm and its applications; C. Peter Wagner  --; Recovering the church's transforming middle : theological reflections on the balance between faithfulness and effectiveness; Robert A. Evans  --; Some sociological conclusions about church trends; Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen  --; Is religion a dependent variable?; Dean M. Kelley  --; What are the alternatives?; Lyle E. Schaller; 2
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