Adelle Banks “Southern Baptists address drop in baptism numbers,” The Washington Post 6/18 (2005).
P. Marler & C. Hadaway. “Testing the Attendance Gap in a Conservative Church,” Sociology of Religion (1999) 60:175 and S. Presser “Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance,” American Sociological Review. (1998) 63: 137 show that actual church attendance is much lower than indicated in surveys.
Gallup, Religion in America: Who has None? 2005; Twenty-Eight Percent Believe Bible is Actual Word of God, 2006.
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