When To Stay, When To Go: A Cost-Benefits Analysis of Church Membership and Regular Attendance

The membership numbers of most of the Protestant denominations in the United States have been decreasing for a number of years. Much of the research studying this phenomenon has used demographic data and surveys of former members to understand reasons for leaving. This qualitative study uses a phe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehst, Kendall Ryan
Other Authors: Human Development
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30872
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01092007-142141/