Research Examines African American Churches and Their Congregations
- The estimates of seminary trained black clergy vary from 20 to 30 percent nationwide.
- The majority of black rural church pastors live in urban areas and commute an average of over 40 miles to their churches.
- Cheryl Gilkes has estimated that African Americans constitute about 25 percent of the participants in megachurch congregations, both black and white.
- A study of 66 black megachurches were divided as follows:
- Baptist, 46 percent
- Nondenominational, 29 percent
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Date: 12/12/2006
Baylor Research: three-fourths of Americans pray at least once a week
- About 45 percent of respondents say a table grace on certain occasions; 19 percent do so at all meals.
- About 53 percent of respondents pray about world affairs.
- About 28 percent pray for financial security.
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Date: 11/19/2006
Baylor Study Reveals the Religious Characteristics of Americans
- Nearly half of Americans (47.2%) identify themselves as "Bible-believing"
- Only 15 percent of the population use the term "Evangelical" to describe their religious identity and barely two in 100 Americans say it is the best description.
- Just a third of persons in Evangelical Protestant congregations and denominations (32.6%) refer to themselves as "Evangelical"
- Persons with household incomes of more than $100,000 a year are twice as likely to describe themselves as "Theologically Liberal" than are persons with household incomes of $35,000 or less a year
- Approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population have read a book in the Left-Behind series (19.0%) and/or the Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (19.0%).
- Of those who spend more than $50 a month on religious products, more than half (54.0%) are Evangelical Christians.
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Date: 9/11/2006
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