Churchgoing

What is the attitude of her community towards her lapse in churchgoing? ❋ Unknown (2002)

Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1955)

If so, you do not recognize leadership and the execution of a brilliant tactic, that puts Democrats back in play with that'churchgoing 'partof the electorate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With all their weaknesses, those data suggest that as early as 1952 (and probably before that) black churchgoing was relatively high (upward of 50 percent weekly), and that it began to slip from that elevated level in the late 1950s. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

In spite of all the attention paid to church-based mobilization on behalf of conservative candidates and causes, churchgoing liberals are actually more likely to report political activity at church than are conservatives. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The postwar boom in churchgoing was fueled above all by men who had survived the Great Depression as teenagers and World War II as grunts, and were now ready at last to settle into a normal life, with a steady job, a growing family, a new house and car, and respectable middle-class status. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

What counts is not how well you learned the catechism or the Golden Rule as a child, but how involved you are nowadays in religious networks, as marked for example by churchgoing. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

According to the National Election Studies archives, weekly churchgoing among college-educated white men almost doubled in little more than a decade between 1952 and 1964 from about 29 percent to about 53 percent. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Unchurched conservatives are more tolerant of difference and dissent than devout conservatives, and churchgoing liberals are less tolerant than secular liberals.55 ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

In another parallel with evangelicals, churchgoing among both groups is most common among those with a college education see Figure 9.12. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

For almost every one of these specific secular sectors, churchgoing Americans are significantly more likely to give financial support than secular Americans.15 The biggest religious edge is found for giving to educational, youth, and international causes.16 In short, virtually every part of the American philanthropic spectrum benefits disproportionately from giving by religiously observant men and women, but this is especially true for organizations serving the needy. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Also, keep in mind that there are very few churchgoing liberals. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The most heavily Republican portion of the churchgoing population is people who rely on religion when making political decisions and are embedded in a dense religious social network, not the people who hear the most politics in church.28 ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Raised mostly in Baltimore in a churchgoing family, Jake says he graduated from high school but soon started “running with the wrong crowd.” ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Since these are interviews with the same people at different points in time, we can be confident that the emergence of the religiosity divide has entailed some individual-level change, as churchgoing and partisanship have come into alignment. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Then, as now, getting married, settling down, and raising children were associated with more regular churchgoing. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

And 20 percent of churchgoing political conservatives many of whom, of course, are evangelicals report a church-based political appeal, little higher than the 16 percent of churchgoing liberals. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

However, virtually all the other commonly cited reasons for churchgoing were more social than theological. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Blacks contributed more than their share to the high levels of churchgoing in the 1950s, but they seem to have contributed less than their share to the growth of churchgoing. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)