More Evidence on U.S. Catholic Church Attendance

More Evidence on U.S. Catholic Church Attendance

Hadaway, Marler, and Chaves (1993) have recently argued that U.S. weekly church attendance is about one-half the rate that is commonly accepted. Regarding Catholics, their result was based on head-count data from only 18 dioceses. The present paper is based on data from a total of 48 Catholic dioces...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal for the scientific study of religion 1994-12, Vol.33 (4), p.376-381
Hauptverfasser: Chaves, Mark, Cavendish, James C.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Catholic churches
Catholicism
Catholics
Censuses
Christianity
Church Attendance
Contemporary period
General subjects
History and sciences of religions
Proportions
Protestantism
Religion
Religious practice
Research facilities
Research Notes
Roman Catholics
Self reports
Social research
Social surveys
Sociological studies
U.S.A
United States of America
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Zusammenfassung:Hadaway, Marler, and Chaves (1993) have recently argued that U.S. weekly church attendance is about one-half the rate that is commonly accepted. Regarding Catholics, their result was based on head-count data from only 18 dioceses. The present paper is based on data from a total of 48 Catholic dioceses containing approximately 38% of U.S. Catholics. The results are the same: The weekly attendance rate in this expanded set of dioceses is 26.7%. These results lend further empirical support to the notion that church attendance rates based on self-reports are substantially inflated.
ISSN:0021-8294
1468-5906
DOI:10.2307/1386496