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Oooh, this is tantalizing, but I'm not paying $25 for it.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/02/11/poq.nfq068.1
If you have access, perhaps you will enjoy reading it.
Summary to be found here:
http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2011/01/americans-not-as-religious-as-they.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_hidden_brain/2010/12/walking_santa_talking_christ.html
A lot of this stuff is pointing at the work of Hadaway, Marler and Chaves. I can't find any data collection like what they did that occurred after the late 1990s/early 2000s -- that is, nothing post recession. Pew doesn't think that attendance ticked up in 2009. The usual suspects took the usual sides as to whether they think it did or not. None of it is based on the kind of research that the HMC research suggests would be necessary to get a good picture.
I used to _regularly_ attend religious services 3 days a week -- until 1994. But even after I quit being a JW, I was still going to Xtian churches several times a year (holiday stuff, going with a friend, going to a historic church while on vacation that you cannot get into on a tour but can attend a service at, music services, etc.). It was only after I got married to a man whose aunt is ordained by one of the mainline churches that my church attendance finally dropped to actual zero. I do, however, retain several friends who attend with some degree of regularity (a small number weekly or more often, several who attend 2-3 times a month, another group that go for holiday services). The ones who attend most often generally hold some sort of deacon or elder type position within their congregation and/or participate in the musical part of the services. I'm not saying I think no one goes to church regularly any more from the perspective of someone who doesn't know anyone who goes to church.
Quite the contrary.
ETA: I should add -- I _adore_ my aunt-in-law. She officiated at our wedding. I even like her denomination better than almost all others. It's purely a coincidence that I quit going to churches.
Oooh, this is tantalizing, but I'm not paying $25 for it.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/02/11/poq.nfq068.1
If you have access, perhaps you will enjoy reading it.
Summary to be found here:
http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2011/01/americans-not-as-religious-as-they.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_hidden_brain/2010/12/walking_santa_talking_christ.html
A lot of this stuff is pointing at the work of Hadaway, Marler and Chaves. I can't find any data collection like what they did that occurred after the late 1990s/early 2000s -- that is, nothing post recession. Pew doesn't think that attendance ticked up in 2009. The usual suspects took the usual sides as to whether they think it did or not. None of it is based on the kind of research that the HMC research suggests would be necessary to get a good picture.
I used to _regularly_ attend religious services 3 days a week -- until 1994. But even after I quit being a JW, I was still going to Xtian churches several times a year (holiday stuff, going with a friend, going to a historic church while on vacation that you cannot get into on a tour but can attend a service at, music services, etc.). It was only after I got married to a man whose aunt is ordained by one of the mainline churches that my church attendance finally dropped to actual zero. I do, however, retain several friends who attend with some degree of regularity (a small number weekly or more often, several who attend 2-3 times a month, another group that go for holiday services). The ones who attend most often generally hold some sort of deacon or elder type position within their congregation and/or participate in the musical part of the services. I'm not saying I think no one goes to church regularly any more from the perspective of someone who doesn't know anyone who goes to church.
Quite the contrary.
ETA: I should add -- I _adore_ my aunt-in-law. She officiated at our wedding. I even like her denomination better than almost all others. It's purely a coincidence that I quit going to churches.