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Article: Matters of faith.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 16, 2005
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Byline: Jane Lampman
Religious liberalism grows in US
Much has been made of the "conservatizing" of American faith - with membership declining in liberal mainline Christian denominations and pews filling up in more conservative churches. A new analysis of data from four decades of University of Chicago's General Social Survey tells a different story.
Religious liberalism has been rising faster than fundamentalism, says Copernicus Marketing Consulting and Research, of Waltham, Mass., which did the analysis. The number of Americans who consider themselves "religiously liberal" rose from 18 percent in 1972 to 29 percent in 2002, while those ...