The Churching of Colonial Connecticut: A Case Study
dc.contributor.author | Hull, Brooks B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moran, Gerald F. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-28T19:14:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-07-28T19:14:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Review of Religious Research, Vol. 41, 1999, pp. 165-183 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60435> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0034-673X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60435 | |
dc.description | Copyright (c) Religious Research Association | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The market model of religion asserts in part that clergy respond to incentives. For eighteenth-century European established churches, clergy income was independent of church membership and so clergy tended not to behave in a manner attractive to potential members. By contrast, the established Congregational (Puritan) church of colonial Connecticut featured a structure that rewarded to a significant degree zealous clergy. Clergy were hired and fired at the local level by community members who also voted on local clerical taxes. The market model thus predicts relatively strong church membership. Archival data show that the number of new Puritan congregation members as a share of population remained relatively constant over time. The number of new members of individual established congregations remained constant. Church membership was often high in colonial Connecticut towns. Entry by nonestablished congregations had only a modest negative effect on Puritan membership. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 2598937 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Religious Research Association, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject | Church | en_US |
dc.subject | Colonial | en_US |
dc.subject | Puritan | en_US |
dc.title | The Churching of Colonial Connecticut: A Case Study | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Sciences (General) | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Social Sciences, UM-Dearborn | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Dearborn | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60435/1/Hull B - 1999 - Colonial Connecticut - RRR.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Social Sciences: Economics, Department of (UM-Dearborn) |
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