The "Semi-involuntary Institution" Revisited: Regional Variations in Church Participation among Black Americans

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change.

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The Black Church in the African American Experience

1990 • 1,336 citations

Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States

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Religious Practice: A Human Capital Approach

1990 • 720 citations

A Theory of Religion

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Crosscutting Social Circles: Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations

1984 • 654 citations

The Churching of America 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy.

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What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance

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Tally's corner

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The Negro church in America

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Regulation, Pluralism, and Religious Market Structure

1992 • 374 citations

Church Members as a Source of Informal Social Support

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Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in Religious Markets: An Examination of Religious Switching and Apostasy

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Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change

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Collective Action and Group Heterogeneity: Voluntary Provision Versus Selective Incentives

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Sex Codes and Family Life among Poor Inner-city Youths

1989 • 242 citations

Growing Up in the Black Belt.

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Religious Pluralism and Church Membership: A Spatial Diffusion Model

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Black Americans' Perceptions of the Sociohistorical Role of the Church

1987 • 152 citations

Receipt of Support from Family among Black Americans: Demographic and Familial Differences

1986 • 150 citations

Processes of Disaffiliation: Religious Mobility Among Men and Women

1990 • 149 citations

Region, Religious Commitment, and Life Satisfaction Among Black Americans

1990 • 148 citations

Black church in the sixties

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Religiosity and psychological distress among blacks

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Shadow of the Plantation

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The expansion of religious affiliation: An explanation of the growth of church participation in the United States 1850–1930

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Religion, Group Identification, and Politics among American Blacks

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Patterns of Religious Mobility Among Black Americans

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Determinants of Commitment and Participation in Suburban Protestant Churches

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A Model of Religious Choice Under Uncertainty

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Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism.

1984 • 69 citations

Blackways of Kent.

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The Politics of Black Religious Change: Disaffiliation from Black Mainline Denominations

1991 • 52 citations

Identification and Separatism: Religious Involvement and Racial Orientations Among Black Americans

1991 • 50 citations

Unchurched Black Americans: Patterns of Religiosity and Affiliation

1988 • 50 citations

Geographic Mobility, Social Integration, and Church Attendance

1984 • 49 citations

Black-White Differences in Religiosity: Item Analyses and A Formal Structural Test

1990 • 47 citations

The Black Church in Urban America: A Case Study in Political Economy.

1984 • 43 citations

The Development of Negro Religion

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Regional Variations in the Determinants of Religious Participation

1986 • 33 citations

Multilevel structural analysis

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Ethnocultural cleavages and the growth of church membership in the United States, 1860?1930

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Black Pentecostalism: Southern Religion in an Urban World

1983 • 27 citations

In the Receding Shadow of the Plantation: A Profile of Rural Clergy and Churches in the Black Belt

1988 • 24 citations

Community in a Black Pentecostal church

1974 • 24 citations

Becoming a woman in rural Black culture

1978 • 23 citations

Promiseland: A Century of Life in a Negro Community.

1983 • 20 citations

Educational Attainment as a Determinant of Social Class Among Black Americans

1989 • 18 citations

Religious Practice as Social Exchange: An Explanation of the Empirical Findings

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