TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Bradley R.Entner
TI  - Christians are hate-filled hypocrites-- and other lies you've been told: a sociologist shatters myths from the secular and Christian media 
SN  - 9780764207464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BR1642.U5 W75 2010
U1  - 277.3/083 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minn.
PB  - Bethany House
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - Mass media in religion
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -