Index| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affiliated | USA | - | 60.00% | - | - | 1957 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957); pg. 166. | "A century ago, in what is often recalled as a more religious age, less than one American in five held church membership. Today more than three out of five do so. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 63.00% | - | - | 1958 | Herberg, Will. Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company (1960); pg. 48. | "...in 1926 when the Census of Religious Bodies established a new basis of calculation, it was above 46%; in 1958, 63%. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 75.00% | - | - | 1959 | *LINK* Mims, Bob. "Stats Show Mormons Buck Secularization: Social research numbers portray high conservatism, low divorce " in Salt Lake Tribune, March 6, 1999 (viewed online 7 March 1999) | "From a high of more than 75% 40 years ago, U.S. church and synagogue membership hovered just above 65% in 1996, and weekly attendance of religious services has dipped from a high of nearly 50% in the late 1950s to 39% in 1998, Duke found. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | - | - | 1960 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 952. | Table: "Church Affiliation in the Twentieth Century (Percentage of Total Population) " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 63.00% | - | - | 1960 | Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 165. | "By 1950, 57% of Americans were church members, up from less than 50% in the 1940s, and by 1960, 63% were members. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 75.00% | - | - | 1960 | Herberg, Will. Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company (1960); pg. 49. | "About 70 to 75% of the American people, it may be safely estimated, regard themselves as members of churches; another 20 to 25% locate themselves in one or another religious community without a consciousness of actual church membership " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 75.00% | - | - | 1965 | Podell, Janet (ed.). Religion in American Life; New York: H. W. Wilson Company (1987); pg. 13. | "Throughout the period of public opinion polling, from the 1940s until the mid-1960s, roughly three-quarters of the American population consistently reported they were church or synagogue members. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 62.40% | - | - | 1970 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 952. | Table: "Church Affiliation in the Twentieth Century (Percentage of Total Population) " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 62.00% | - | - | 1974 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1975 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1976 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1977 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 60.00% | - | - | 1978 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983); pg. 447. | "Although 60% of the population were members of religious bodies in 1978, the comparable figure was 16% in 1850, 36% in 1900, and 49% in 1940. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1978 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1979 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | - | - | 1980 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 62.00% | - | - | 1980 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 15. | "By 1980 church adherence was about 62%. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 62.00% | - | - | 1980 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 16. | Figure 1.2: "Rates of Religious Adherence, 1776-1980 " |
| affiliated | USA | 135,000,000 | 60.00% | - | - | 1980 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983); pg. 432. | "Another mark of Americans' religious orientation is membership in formal religious organizations. In 1850, only 16% of Americans belonged to organized religious denominations. By 1980, this figure had risen to 60%. Over 135 million Americans reported membership in some 209 denominations. " |
| affiliated | USA | 135,000,000 | 60.00% | - | - | 1980 | Popenoe, David. Sociology (5th Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1983); pg. 446. | "In 1980, a membership of over 135 million persons reported belonging to some religious body in the U.S. (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1981). This membership amounts to about 60% of the American population. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1980 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1981 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 67.00% | - | - | 1982 | Podell, Janet (ed.). Religion in American Life; New York: H. W. Wilson Company (1987); pg. 13. | "...until the mid-1960s, roughly three-quarters of the American population consistently reported they were church or synagogue members. But polls in the 1970s and early 1980s began to show distinct declines, to a low 67% in 1982. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 67.00% | - | - | 1982 | Robertson, Ian. Sociology (2nd ed.); New York, NY: Worth Publishers (1981) [2nd edition is updated since 1977 1st edition]; pg. 428. | "In the United States, for example, 67% of the population were members of (rather than merely believers in) a particular faith in 1982, down from 77% forty-six years previously. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1982 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1983 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 61.00% | - | - | 1984 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 164. | "Church membership fell from 62% of the total population in 1974 to 61% in 1975 and remained there for the next decade. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 71.00% | - | - | 1985 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 67.00% | - | - | 1987 | Podell, Janet (ed.). Religion in American Life; New York: H. W. Wilson Company (1987); pg. 10. | "...two-thirds are members of a local church or synagogue. " |
| affiliated | USA | 143,000,000 | 59.00% | - | - | 1988 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 274. | "A 1988 study by the National Council of Churches of Christ in New York City counted 143 million church members, 59 percent of the U.S. population. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | - | - | 1989 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 65.00% | - | - | 1990 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 68.00% | - | - | 1991 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | - | - | 1992 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 68.00% | - | - | 1993 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 70.00% | - | - | 1994 | Reeves, Thomas C. Twentieth Century America: A Brief History. New York: Oxford University Press (2000); pg. 284. | "Gallup pollsters... A 1994 poll found that 70 percent belonged to a church or synagogue... " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | - | - | 1995 | Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997, 117th Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Oct. 1997). [Orig. source: Religion in America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center (1996). Based on surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, Inc.]; pg. 70. | Table: "No. 86. Religious Preference, Church Membership, and Attendance: 1980 to 1995 "; "Covers civilian noninstitutional population, 18 yrs. old and over. Data represent averages of the combined results of several surveys during year or period indicated.]; affiliated: "Church/synagogue members " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 60.00% | - | - | 1996 | Krantz, Les & Jim McCormick. The Peoplepedia: The Ultimate Reference on the American People, Henry Holt and Company: New York (1996); pg. 182. | "The 1995 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches counts more than 163 million Americans--more than 60 percent of the total population--affiliated with a religion. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 65.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* Mims, Bob. "Stats Show Mormons Buck Secularization: Social research numbers portray high conservatism, low divorce " in Salt Lake Tribune, March 6, 1999 (viewed online 7 March 1999) | "From a high of more than 75% 40 years ago, U.S. church and synagogue membership hovered just above 65% in 1996, and weekly attendance of religious services has dipped from a high of nearly 50% in the late 1950s to 39% in 1998, Duke found. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 66.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Morin, Richard. "Keeping the Faith " in Washington Post (Jan. 12, 1998). | "About 2 out of 3 Americans currently say they belong to a church, according to Gallup surveys. That's about 4 times more than the 17% who were members of churches in 1776, according to Rodney Stark, professor of sociology and comparative religions at the University of Washington. " |
| affiliated | USA | - | 69.00% | 300,000 units |
- | 1998 | Swain, Carol M. The New White Nationalism in America; Its Challenge to Integration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2002); pg. 380. | "America's religiosity, moreover, is not simply a matter of private faith and devotion but is expressed publicly in the more than 300,000 churches, synagogue, and mosques that Americans regularly attend. A 1998 Gallup poll showed that 69 percent of Americans are members of an organized religious institution -- an increase over the 65 percent recorded in 1996. " [Original source: George Gallup, Jr., and D. Michael Lindsey, Surveying the Religious Landscape: Trends in U.S. Beliefs (Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse, 1999)] |
| affiliated | USA | - | 55.00% | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* web site: "Shirley Zeitlen and Company Realtors "; web page: "Religion " [in Nashville, Tenn.] (viewed 15 June 1999). | "65% of people in Davidson County [Tennessee, where Nashville is] describe themselves as religiously affiliated (the national average is 55%)... " |
| affiliated | USA - blacks | - | 72.00% | - | - | 1998 | Swain, Carol M. The New White Nationalism in America; Its Challenge to Integration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2002); pg. 397. | "According to the Gallup International organization, African Americans are the world's most religious people. When asked to rank on a ten-point scale the importance of God in their lives African Americans recorded a mean score of 9.04, the highest of any subgroup responding to the question. Their religiosity is manifest in high rates of church membership (72 percent compared with 69 percent for other Americans)... " |
| affiliated | USA - men | - | 48.00% | - | - | 1926 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 345. | "...data from the 1926 religious census showed that 63% of adult females and 48% of adult males were church members, a gap of 15 points; by 1985, the comparable figures were 73% and 63%... " |
| affiliated | USA - men | - | 63.00% | - | - | 1985 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 345. | "...data from the 1926 religious census showed that 63% of adult females and 48% of adult males were church members, a gap of 15 points; by 1985, the comparable figures were 73% and 63%... " |
| affiliated | USA - Middle Colonies | - | 19.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 26. | "The [adherence] rates for New England (20%) and for the Middle Colonies (19%) are essentially the same, but the rate for the Southern Colonies (12%) is substantially lower. " |
| affiliated | USA - Middle Colonies | - | 19.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 27. | Table 2.2: "Religious Adherence Rates by Colony, 1776 (in percent) " |
| affiliated | USA - New England | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 26. | "The [adherence] rates for New England (20%) and for the Middle Colonies (19%) are essentially the same, but the rate for the Southern Colonies (12%) is substantially lower. This difference is partly an artifact of slavery. In 1776 slaves made up 42% of the population of the Southern Colonies, and they are included in the population denominators on which the adherence rates are based. But, in those days very few slaves had the option of belonging to a church... " |
| affiliated | USA - New England | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 26. | "The [adherence] rates for New England (20%) and for the Middle Colonies (19%) are essentially the same, but the rate for the Southern Colonies (12%) is substantially lower. " |
| affiliated | USA - New England | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 22-23. | "...in 1776 only about one out of five New Englanders had a religious affiliation. The lack of affiliation does not necessarily mean that most were irreligious (although some clearly were), but it does mean that their faith lacked public expression and organized influence. " |
| affiliated | USA - South | - | 12.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 26. | "The [adherence] rates for New England (20%) and for the Middle Colonies (19%) are essentially the same, but the rate for the Southern Colonies (12%) is substantially lower. This difference is partly an artifact of slavery. In 1776 slaves made up 42% of the population of the Southern Colonies, and they are included in the population denominators on which the adherence rates are based. But, in those days very few slaves had the option of belonging to a church... " |
| affiliated | USA - South | - | 12.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 27. | Table 2.2: "Religious Adherence Rates by Colony, 1776 (in percent) "; White adherence rate: 20% |
| affiliated | USA - whites | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 27. | Table 2.2: "Religious Adherence Rates by Colony, 1776 (in percent) " |
| affiliated | USA - women | - | 63.00% | - | - | 1926 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 345. | "...data from the 1926 religious census showed that 63% of adult females and 48% of adult males were church members, a gap of 15 points; by 1985, the comparable figures were 73% and 63%... " |
| affiliated | USA - women | - | 73.00% | - | - | 1985 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 345. | "...data from the 1926 religious census showed that 63% of adult females and 48% of adult males were church members, a gap of 15 points; by 1985, the comparable figures were 73% and 63%... " |
| affiliated | USA - women | - | 75.00% | - | - | 1988 | Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1988); pg. 226. | "...American women... nearly three-quarters consider themselves church members. " |
| affiliated | Vermont | - | 9.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 26. | "Now let us consider the adherence rate for each colony... There is substantial variation, from as low as 7% in Georgia and 9% in Vermont and North Carolina, up to 26% in New Jersey... " |
| affiliated | Vermont | - | 9.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 27. | Table 2.2: "Religious Adherence Rates by Colony, 1776 (in percent) " |
| affiliated | Vermont | - | 32.20% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 68. | Figure 3.3: "Religious Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 " |
| affiliated | Virginia | - | 12.00% | - | - | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 27. | Table 2.2: "Religious Adherence Rates by Colony, 1776 (in percent) "; White adherence rate: 22% |
| affiliated | Virginia | - | 31.40% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 68. | Figure 3.3: "Religious Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 " |
| affiliated | Wisconsin | - | 21.60% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 68. | Figure 3.3: "Religious Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 " |
| affiliated - black | USA | 24,000,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Russell, Chandler. Racing Toward 2001; Zondervan Publishing House: Grand Rapids, MI (1992). [Orig. source: Richard N. Ostling, "Strains on the Heart, " Time, 19 Nov. 1990, 88-90.]; pg. 177. | "the seven largest U.S. black denominations. These groups claim 80% of the nation's aggregate total of 24 million black churchgoers, about 77% of whom are Protestant. " |
| affiliated - full communicant | California | 2,752,215 | 9.30% | 14,427 units |
- | 1990 | Ramos, Mary G. (ed). 1996-1997 Texas Almanac. Dallas, TX: Dallas Morning News (1995). [Source: Glenmary: "Churches & Church Membership in the U.S., 1990 "]; pg. 325. | Table: "Texas Leads the Nation in Number of Churches, Members "; "Data based on reports from reports from church bodies. "; "Members " in this study includes only communicant, confirmed members with full membership status. |
| affiliated - full communicant | New York | 1,974,175 | 11.07% | 10,878 units |
- | 1990 | Ramos, Mary G. (ed). 1996-1997 Texas Almanac. Dallas, TX: Dallas Morning News (1995). [Source: Glenmary: "Churches & Church Membership in the U.S., 1990 "]; pg. 325. | Table: "Texas Leads the Nation in Number of Churches, Members "; "Data based on reports from reports from church bodies. "; "Members " in this study includes only communicant, confirmed members with full membership status. |
affiliated - full communicant, continued 