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Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
...secularization or dilution of supernatural belief, Sociologist Lipset notes that evangelical religions are now stronger (about 10 million members) than at any other time in this century, and are actually responsible for much of the growth in church membership. His conclusion: "By far the most striking aspect of religious life in America is not the changes which have occurred in it-but the basic continuities it retains...