The Others: Finding and Counting America's Invisible Churches

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dc.citation.firstpage901en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal for the Scientific Study of Religionen_US
dc.citation.lastpage912en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber62en_US
dc.contributor.authorMelton, J. Gordonen_US
dc.contributor.authorFerguson, Todden_US
dc.contributor.authorFoertsch, Stevenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-03T15:51:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-05-03T15:51:00Zen_US
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 2010 U. S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations and Membership Survey (RCMS) is the most comprehensive picture of U.S. religious life, county by county. How thorough is the RCMS in covering local religious groups? To answer this question, three county snapshots were performed with collected data compared to the RCMS 2010 reported numbers. Data suggest that there has been an underreport by as much as 25 percent of the number of local congregations in these counties. New and emerging religious movements and denominations as well as ethnic congregations comprise much of this percentage, making it more imperative for scholars to develop methodologies and frameworks in order to capture these “others” and invisible churches in America.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMelton, J. G., Ferguson, T., & Foertsch, S. (2023). The Others: Finding and Counting America’s Invisible Churches. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 62(4), 901–912. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12875en_US
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12875en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115492en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
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dc.titleThe Others: Finding and Counting America's Invisible Churchesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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