In the Company of the Converted: Characteristics of a Billy Graham Crusade Audience
This article is an examination of the social characteristics of a Billy Graham Crusade audience in Knoxville, Tennessee. Basic data sources are (1) a short questionnaire administered to persons in randomly selected seats, (2) a larger follow-up mail questionnaire, and (3) a comparison survey of area...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1974
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1974, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-56 |
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| Summary: | This article is an examination of the social characteristics of a Billy Graham Crusade audience in Knoxville, Tennessee. Basic data sources are (1) a short questionnaire administered to persons in randomly selected seats, (2) a larger follow-up mail questionnaire, and (3) a comparison survey of area residents. Crusade attenders are more educated and of higher income and occupational prestige than area residents. They attend church more frequently and are more conservative on religious beliefs than comparable samples. The thesis of the middle-class respectability of the Graham movement is substantiated by these data. The persistance of revivalism is interpreted as a functional reaffirmation of a threatened life style. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710342 |