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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2010.Description: 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780764207464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.3/083 22
LOC classification:
  • BR1642.U5 W75 2010
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Book Book Reformational Study Centre General library 277.3083 WRIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RSC027376

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.

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