Christians are hate-filled hypocrites-- and other lies you've been told : a sociologist shatters myths from the secular and Christian media /
Wright, Bradley R. Entner
Christians are hate-filled hypocrites-- and other lies you've been told : a sociologist shatters myths from the secular and Christian media / Bradley R.E. Wright. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2010. - 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249).
Why do we hear so much bad news about Christianity? -- Is American Christianity on the brink of extinction? -- Are we losing our young people? What will happen in the future? -- Are evangelicals all poor, uneducated, southern whites? -- Do Christians think and do Christian things? -- Have Christians gone wild? -- Do Christians love others? -- What do non-christians think of us? -- What do we make of it all? -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: identifying evangelical Christians -- Appendix 2: data sets -- Appendix 3: bivariate vs. multivariate analysis -- Appendix 4: statistical significance.
"A research sociologist uses statistics to reveal the state of the Evangelical Church, showing that the church is in better shape than the secular and Christian media claims"--Provided by publisher.
9780764207464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010004334
Evangelicalism--United States.
Christianity--United States.
Christianity--Controversial literature.
Mass media in religion--United States.
BR1642.U5 / W75 2010
277.3/083
Christians are hate-filled hypocrites-- and other lies you've been told : a sociologist shatters myths from the secular and Christian media / Bradley R.E. Wright. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2010. - 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249).
Why do we hear so much bad news about Christianity? -- Is American Christianity on the brink of extinction? -- Are we losing our young people? What will happen in the future? -- Are evangelicals all poor, uneducated, southern whites? -- Do Christians think and do Christian things? -- Have Christians gone wild? -- Do Christians love others? -- What do non-christians think of us? -- What do we make of it all? -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: identifying evangelical Christians -- Appendix 2: data sets -- Appendix 3: bivariate vs. multivariate analysis -- Appendix 4: statistical significance.
"A research sociologist uses statistics to reveal the state of the Evangelical Church, showing that the church is in better shape than the secular and Christian media claims"--Provided by publisher.
9780764207464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010004334
Evangelicalism--United States.
Christianity--United States.
Christianity--Controversial literature.
Mass media in religion--United States.
BR1642.U5 / W75 2010
277.3/083