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100 1 _aWright, Bradley R. Entner.
245 1 0 _aChristians are hate-filled hypocrites-- and other lies you've been told :
_ba sociologist shatters myths from the secular and christian media /
_cBradley R.E. Wright.
260 _aMinneapolis, Minn. :
_bBethany House,
_cc2010.
300 _a249 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249).
505 0 _aWhy 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aEvangelicalism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aChristianity
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aChristianity
_vControversial literature.
650 0 _aMass media in religion
_zUnited States.
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