The great dechurching : who's leaving, why are they going, and what will it take to bring them back? / Jim Davis and Michael Graham with Ryan P. Burge ; foreword by Collin Hansen.
Publication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, ©2023.Description: xxiv, 242 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780310147435
- 9780310145875
- REL108000 | REL012110
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BV4520 R87p Personal work / | BV4520 W58h Healing the wounded : | BV4520 W93 Unfinished evangelism / | BV4523 D28 2023 The great dechurching : who's leaving, why are they going, and what will it take to bring them back? / | BV4525 H19 2009 A call to joy : | BV4525 H19 2009 c.2 A call to joy : | BV4525 M34 Priests to each other / |
"In The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham along with renowned sociologist Dr. Ryan Burge examine the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching--the largest and fastest religious shift in US history--to drill down to exactly why people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging"--
"We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge and Dr. Paul Djupe. The Great Dechurching takes the insights gleaned from this study to drill down on how exactly people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging. The Great Dechurching gives the church in America its first ever deep dive into the dechurched phenomenon. Readers will learn about the dechurched through a detailed sketch of demographics, size, core concerns, church off-ramps, historical roots, and the gravity of what is at stake. Then they will explore what can be done to slow the bleed, engage the pertinent issues winsomely and wisely, and hopefully re-church some of the dechurched"--