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Group |
Where |
Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year |
Source |
Quote/ Notes |
Methodist |
United Kingdom |
- |
- |
14,200 units |
- |
1932 |
*LINK* "News in Brief " in Hinduism Today International (Feb. 1996 -- Vol. 18, No. 2); original source: Religion News Service. |
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES are being sold by the hundreds in the UK and being made over into Hindu temples, mandiras and Sikh gurudwaras... Methodism is waning at a fast rate. Today, only 7,000 Methodist churches remain out of 14,200 in 1932. |
Methodist |
United Kingdom |
- |
7.00% |
- |
- |
1986 |
*LINK* "Religion; Secularisation " web page; "Sociology at Hewitt " site, Hewitt School, Norfolk, UK |
A 1983 Gallup Poll found that 64% of white British people considered themselves Church of England, 11% Roman Catholic, 7% Methodist, 2% Baptist, only 16% had "no religion " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom |
760,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1991 |
*LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) |
Total population: 57,591,677. Anglican 27 million, Roman Catholic 9 million, Muslim 1 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 400,000, Hindu 350,000, Jewish 300,000 (1991 est.). NOTE: UK does not include question on religion in its census. |
Methodist |
United Kingdom |
26,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1993 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). |
"...more than 26,000 Methodists were worshipping in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in 1767 " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom |
- |
- |
7,000 units |
- |
1996 |
*LINK* "News in Brief " in Hinduism Today International (Feb. 1996 -- Vol. 18, No. 2); original source: Religion News Service. |
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES are being sold by the hundreds in the UK and being made over into Hindu temples, mandiras and Sikh gurudwaras... Methodism is waning at a fast rate. Today, only 7,000 Methodist churches remain out of 14,200 in 1932. |
Methodist |
United Kingdom & Ireland |
26,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1767 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 155-156. |
"...more than 26,000 Methodists were worshipping in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in 1767. " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: England |
4 |
- |
1 unit |
- |
1729 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 14-15. |
"John Wesley... wrote the following account of the 1st society called Methodist: 'In Nov., 1729, 4 young gentlemen of Oxford... began... reading chiefly the Greek Testament... The next year, two or three of Mr. Wesley's pupils desired the liberty of meeting with them; and afterwards one of Mr. Charles Wesley's pupils... " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: England |
8 |
- |
1 unit |
- |
1730 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 14-15. |
"John Wesley... wrote the following account of the 1st society called Methodist: 'In Nov., 1729, 4 young gentlemen of Oxford... began... reading chiefly the Greek Testament... The next year, two or three of Mr. Wesley's pupils desired the liberty of meeting with them; and afterwards one of Mr. Charles Wesley's pupils... " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: England |
16 |
- |
1 unit |
- |
1732 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 14-15. |
"John Wesley... wrote the following account of the 1st society called Methodist: 'In Nov., 1729, 4 young gentlemen of Oxford... began... reading chiefly the Greek Testament... The next year, two or three of Mr. Wesley's pupils desired the liberty of meeting with them; and afterwards one of Mr. Charles Wesley's pupils... It was in 1732 that Mr. Ingham... & Mr. Broughton... were added... To these, in April, was joined Mr. Clayton... with 2 or 3 of his pupils... [&] Mr. James Hervey... and afterwards Mr. Whitefield' " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: England |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1740 |
Stack, Peggy Fletcher. A World of Faith. USA: Signature Books (1998); pg. 29. |
"Methodists. John Wesley, an eighteenth-century priest in the Church of England... |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: England |
70,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1800 |
Hopfe, Lews M. Religions of the World, Macmillan Publishing Co.: New York (1983) [3rd edition]; pg. 413. |
"At the end of the eighteenth century there were over 70,000 Methodists in England... " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: Great Britain |
1,264,493 |
- |
- |
- |
1945 |
Ferm, Vergilius (ed). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976; 1st ed. pub. 1945 by Philosophical Library); pg. 489. |
Table: "The following statistical table gives the present approx. membership of the main divisions of world-wide Methodism... " Location listed in table as "Great Britain " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: Great Britain |
500,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1986 |
Langley, Andrew. Passport to Great Britain. New York: Franklin Watts (1986); pg. 26. |
"Religions: In 1985 an estimated 16% of the adult population were members of Christian churches.... Other Protestant churches, including the Methodists (with nearly 500,000 adult members) and the Baptists (226,000). " |
Methodist |
United Kingdom: Wales |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1998 |
Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 402-403. |
"Location: United Kingdom (Wales); Population: 2.8 million "; "The Methodism of evangelist John Wesley had a strong influence on the Welsh beginning in the 18th century, and most Welsh Christians today are Methodists (also called Nonconformists). " |
Methodist |
USA |
1,160 |
0.05% |
- |
- |
1773 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 38. |
"...in 1773, it is estimated that there was only one Methodist among each 2,050 of America's population. " |
Methodist |
USA |
14,988 |
0.47% |
- |
- |
1773 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 38. |
"Between 1773 and 1784... the number of members [increased] from 1,160 to 14,988. Instead of one in every 2,050 persons in America being a Methodist, the ratio had decreased by 1784 to one in every 213. " |
Methodist |
USA |
4,921 |
- |
- |
- |
1773 |
Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. (1984); pg. 171. |
"Before the [Revolutionary] war there were only 4,921 Methodists in America; yet at the end of his life Asbury counted 212,000 of them, mostly recent converts. " |
Methodist |
USA |
1,160 |
- |
- |
- |
1773 |
Zehavi, A.M. (editor) Handbook of the World's Religions. New York: Franklin Watts (1973); pg. 21. |
"Their mission prospered, and in 1773 the first American Methodist conference was held in Philadelphia, with 10 traveling preachers present. By this time there were 1,160 American Methodists, over half of them in Maryland and Virginia, where the Church of England was strongest. " |
Methodist |
USA |
3,148 |
- |
- |
- |
1775 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). |
- |
Methodist |
USA |
3,148 |
- |
- |
- |
1775 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 156. |
"...of 3,148 Methodists in the colonies in 1775, about 2,000 lived south of Mason and Dixon's line. " |
Methodist |
USA |
15,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1776 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 30. |
"Methodism spread first to Ireland and then to America. In 1766 Philip Embury, a lay preacher from Ireland, came to New York City.... Within ten years after the first Methodist preachers arrived, American Methodism numbered about fifteen thousand members and eighty preachers. " |
Methodist |
USA |
15,050 |
0.43% |
- |
- |
1776 |
Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 139, 141. |
"in 1776...out of a population of approx. 3.5 million... [affiliated] adherents of religion... closer to 17%. "; "...Methodists accounted from only 2.5% of all religious adherents in the 13 colonies... " |
Methodist |
USA |
4,921 |
- |
65 units |
- |
1776 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 25. |
"The Methodists have quite complete and apparently accurate statistics for this period. The 1776 Minutes of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church report a total membership of 4,921. If we divide this number by the 65 Methodist congregations reported by Jernegan, we arrive at an average of 75.7 members. " |
Methodist |
USA |
4,921 |
- |
- |
- |
1776 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 58. |
"The Methodists reported 4,921 members in 1776. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
65 units |
- |
1776 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 56. |
"In 1776 the Methodists were a tiny religious society with only 65 churches scattered through the colonies. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
65 units |
- |
1776 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); [Orig. source: Paullin (1932)]; pg. 25. |
Table 2.1: "Numbers of Congregations per Denomination, 1776 " |
Methodist |
USA |
7,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1776 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). |
- |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1776 |
Stack, Peggy Fletcher. A World of Faith. USA: Signature Books (1998); pg. 29. |
"Methodists... During the American Revolution, the Methodist societies in the United States broke off from the Church of England and formed a church of their own. On the western frontier, every Methodist minister was a 'circuit-rider,' traveling from place to place, holding services in large tents, preaching to thousands day and night. " |
Methodist |
USA |
15,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1778 |
Zehavi, A.M. (editor) Handbook of the World's Religions. New York: Franklin Watts (1973); pg. 21. |
"Work in America fell to native lay preachers, such as William Watters, Freeborn Garrettson, and Jesse Lee, due to whose diligence there were 15,000 Methodists by the end of the Revolution. " |
Methodist |
USA |
14,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1779 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 157. |
"From 14,000 in 73 circuits a the close of the Revolution, by the middle of the following century it [Methodist movement in U.S.] had increased to 1,324,000. " |
Methodist |
USA |
15,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1780 |
Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 123. |
"The 15,000 American Methodists at the close of the Revolutionary War clamored for clerical leadership. Wesley responded to their demand by asking the Bishop of London... " |
Methodist |
USA |
64,894 |
- |
- |
- |
1800 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 58. |
"By 1900, at the end of the period that Marty (1975, p. 82) has called the 'big sleep' in American religious life, the Methodists had grown to 64,894... " |
Methodist |
USA |
130,570 |
- |
- |
- |
1806 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 58. |
"By 1900, at the end of the period that Marty (1975, p. 82) has called the 'big sleep' in American religious life, the Methodists had grown to 64,894, and by 1806 they numbered 130,570--hardly a 'sleepy' performance, given that the nation's population did not even double during this interval. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
2.56% |
- |
- |
1810 |
Kennedy, Gerald. The Methodist Way of Life. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1958); pg. 65. |
"...by 1810 there was one Methodist for every 39 persons in the [U.S.] " |
Methodist |
USA |
54,450 |
- |
- |
- |
1816 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 40. |
"By 1816, the year Asbury died, there were 18,150 Methodists in Ohio, a little less than one-third the entire membership of American Methodism. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
2.56% |
- |
- |
1816 |
Allen, Charles L. Meet the Methodists: An Introduction to the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1986); pg. 41. |
"By the time of Asbury's death, in 1816, Methodism had increased from 10 preachers and 1,160 members in 1773 to 695 preachers and 214,235 members... Now Methodists numbered one in every 39 Americans... Methodism was now established in every state and territory east of the Mississippi except eastern Florida, which as under the control of the Spanish, and Wisconsin... " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
2,700 units |
- |
1820 |
Gaustad, Edwin S. Church and State in America (series: Religion in American Life). New York: Oxford University Press (1999); pg. 48. |
Chart: "Number of Churches [in U.S.A.] in 1820 "; "Baptists and Methodists had more churches in 1820 than other Christian denominations. The colonial 'heavyweights,' Congregationalists and Episcopalians (Anglicans), were now outnumbered. " |
Methodist |
USA |
2,600,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1830 |
Feldman, Egal. Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with Protestant America; Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1990); pg. 49. |
"Although numerical precision is elusive, the American Education Society estimated in 1830 that of the nation's leading denominations, there were 2,743,453 Calvinist Baptists, 2,600,000 Methodists, 1,800,000 Presbyterians, 1,260,000 Congregationalists, & 1,260,000 Episcopalians. " |
Methodist |
USA |
2,600,000 |
- |
13,302 units |
- |
1850 |
Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 141. |
"by 1850 they numbered 13,302 congregations with more than 2.6 million members. Thus, the Methodist Church accounted then for 34.2% of all U.S. church members. " |
Methodist |
USA |
2,600,000 |
- |
13,302 units |
- |
1850 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 56. |
"Seven decades later [in 1850] they towered over the nation. In 1850 there were 13,302 Methodist congregations, enrolling more than 2.6 million members--the largest single denomination. " |
Methodist |
USA |
2,700,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1850 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 113. |
Figure 4.1: "Total Adherents by Denominations, 1850-1890 (in thousands; adherents include children and adults) "; Figure has figures for: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
11.63% |
- |
- |
1850 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 55. |
Figure 3.1: "Religious Adherents by Denomination, 1776 and 1850 (as percentage of total adherents "; "...proportion belonging to churches... 34% " [Adherence rate (34%) multiplied by denomination % (34.2%)] |
Methodist |
USA |
1,324,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1850 |
Herberg, Will. Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company (1960); pg. 105. |
"By 1850 the last had become first, at least in numbers, for the Methodists in that year had a membership of 1,324,000. " |
Methodist |
USA |
1,324,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1850 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). |
- |
Methodist |
USA |
1,324,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1850 |
Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 157. |
"From 14,000 in 73 circuits a the close of the Revolution, by the middle of the following century it [Methodist movement in U.S.] had increased to 1,324,000. " |
Methodist |
USA |
3,793,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1860 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 113. |
Figure 4.1: "Total Adherents by Denominations, 1850-1890 (in thousands; adherents include children and adults) "; Figure has figures for: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. |
Methodist |
USA |
1,032,184 |
- |
- |
- |
1860 |
Stuber, Stanley I. How We Got Our Denominations: A Primer on Church History. New York: Association Press Revised Ed., 1959); pg. 205. |
"At the time of the Civil War the number of Methodists had grown to 1,032,184. " |
Methodist |
USA |
3,725,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1870 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 113. |
Figure 4.1: "Total Adherents by Denominations, 1850-1890 (in thousands; adherents include children and adults) "; Figure has figures for: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. |
Methodist |
USA |
4,589,284 |
- |
- |
- |
1890 |
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 843. |
"...Methodist and Baptist... had been relatively small fringe groups in 1800, but they had grown to denominations that numbered, respectively, 4,589,284 and 3,717,969 by 1890. " |
Methodist |
USA |
7,132,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1890 |
Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 113. |
Figure 4.1: "Total Adherents by Denominations, 1850-1890 (in thousands; adherents include children and adults) "; Figure has figures for: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. |
Methodist |
USA |
6,000,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1900 |
Carruth, Gorton. The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (10th Edition), HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.: New York (1997); pg. 387. |
"A survey of Protestant religious sects in the U.S. at the end of the nineteenth century showed... 6,000,000 Methodists; 5,000,000 Baptists; 1,500,000 Lutherans; 1,500,000 Presbyterians; 350,000 Mormons; and 80,000 Christian Scientists. " |
Methodist |
USA |
5,700,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1906 |
Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 21. |
"When the Census of Religious Bodies was conducted in 1906, Methodists still ranked first, with 5.7 million members; Baptists came in second, with 5.6 million; Presbyterians ranked third, with 1.8 million; Lutherans, fourth, with 1.5 million... " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
40,000 units |
- |
1946 |
Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 28-29. |
"In the Methodist church, things were much the same: only 15,000 of the 40,000 congregations had regular full-time ministers. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1957 |
Spence, Hartzell. The Story of America's Religions; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1960) [1st printing 1957]; pg. 18. |
92% of American black Methodists still not affiliated with the merged body [i.e. (United) Methodist Church]. Most of them belong to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Meth. Episc. Zion Ch. or Christian Meth. Episc. Church. |
Methodist |
USA |
11,800,000 |
7.02% |
- |
- |
1957 |
Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957); pg. 204-205. |
Table: "Christians, Their Practices "; "Methodists: Members in... U.S., 11.8 million adults. There are now 22 groups in U.S. Largest is The Methodist Church; next, African Methodist Episcopal Church. Total U.S. assets, $2.7 billion. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
- |
40,000 units |
- |
1963 |
Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 128. |
"Within the 40,000 American Methodist churches, there is probably as wide variation in types of thought and worship as there is between Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and others. " |
Methodist |
USA |
13,000,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1975 |
Wallechinsky, David & Irving Wallace; The People's Almanac; Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1975); pg. 1267. |
List of "Major World Religions ": "Worldwide, Methodists now number about 16 million adults, including over 13 million in the U.S. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
6.30% |
- |
- |
1977 |
Wallechinsky, David & Irving Wallace; The People's Almanac: #2; New York: William Morrow & Co.: (1978); pg. 309. |
United States of America: "Religions: Roman Catholic, 24.1%; Baptist, 13.1%; Methodist, 6.3%; Lutheran, 4.3%; Eastern Orthodox, 2.1%; Presbyterian, 1.9%; Jewish, 1.9%; Episcopal, 1.4%; Latter-day Saints, 1.3%; other or no religion, 43.6% " |
Methodist |
USA |
13,500,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1979 |
Carmody, Denise Lardner & John Tully Carmody. Western Ways to the Center: An Introduction to Western Religions; Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (1983); pg. 122. |
Table: "Membership Data on Major American Religious Groups [1979] " |
Methodist |
USA |
12,826,827 |
- |
- |
- |
1982 |
Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983). [Orig. source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1982. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1982, pp. 351-352.]; pg. 446. |
Table: "Religious Membership in the United States " |
Methodist |
USA |
10,000,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1983 |
Berger, Gilda. Religion: A Reference First Book. New York: Franklin Watts (1983); pg. 60. |
"But Methodism remains a major branch of Protestantism, with 10 million members in the U.S. today and many other Methodists around the world. " |
Methodist |
USA |
13,000,000 |
- |
- |
- |
1983 |
Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983); pg. 446. |
"The next largest group [in the U.S., after Roman Catholic & Baptist] is the Methodists, with almost 13 million members, less than one-fourth as large as the Roman Catholic Church. " |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
5.00% |
- |
- |
1984 |
Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988). [Orig. source: a 1984 Gallup survey of the adult population in the U.S., made available to the author.]; pg. 120. |
"And the 5 percent that claims involvement in positive thinking seminars equals the proportion of the general public that holds membership in the nation's second largest Protestant denomination (Methodists). " |
Methodist |
USA |
14,116,000 |
8.00% |
- |
- |
1990 |
Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 15-17. |
Table 1-2: Self-Described Adherence of U.S. Adult Population 1990. Phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by Graduate School of City U. of New York. |
Methodist |
USA |
- |
8.00% |
- |
- |
1990 |
Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. |
Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
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