Previous literature argues that social networks influence religiosity, but surprisingly, no
studies have used national data of a variety of religious traditions to assess the relationship …

Previous research has devoted significant attention to understanding the link between
health and personal religious beliefs and practices, typically finding that more religious …

Religious congregations in the US receive substantially more philanthropic contributions
than any other category of organizations, yet little research has investigated how …

Large congregations are commonly criticized as eliciting less involvement from adherents
than smaller congregations. Small groups have been heralded as a remedy to drawbacks of …

Prior research argues that religious homophily in social networks is a product of overlapping
interests and activities unintentionally leading to relationships or the intentional seeking of …

Using surveys, this study gathered and examined demographic and religious characteristics
of attendees and clergy of a group of growing mainline Protestant churches in Canada and …

In the ritual theories of Durkheim and Collins, collective effervescence is the engine that
drives social solidarity. I use data from religious organizations to perform a rare test of this …

This article analyzes explanations for growth and decline given by 22 clergy and 128
congregants from 21 mainline Protestant churches in Canada, including both growing and …

Building off of Dean Kelley's and Laurence Iannaccone's earlier work, we develop a path
model of the strictness thesis that investigates and compares how congregational strictness …

Using ideas from cultural and organizational theory, I examine the interplay of individual and
congregation-level educational attainment on biblical literalism. Data on 387 congregations …