On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
> The most upscale religions are the most doctrinally and stylistically
> tepid of them all.
Is that entirely true? I thought number two on this list, the Disciples of Christ (aka The Christian Church (DOC)), was fundamentalist. I had one of them in my class back when I taught Western Civ and he was pretty lively during the bible segment. Although it's interesting that they are kind of the exception that proves your rule here -- their status in this system of reckoning seems to be disproportionately higher than their income.
Michael
>
> average status,
> income rank
>
> Unitarian 34,800 1
> Disciples of Christ 28,800 2
> Agnostic 33,300 3
> Congregationalist 30,400 4
> Episcopalian 33,000 5
> Eastern Orthodox 31,500 6
> Jewish 36,700 7
> Presbyterian 29,000 8
> Hindu 27,800 9
> NRMs 27,500 10
> Buddhist 28,500 11
> None 27,300 12
> Catholic 27,700 13
> Lutheran 25,900 14
> Protestant 25,700 15
> Methodist 25,100 16
> Mormon 25,700 17
> Churches of Christ 26,600 18
> Muslim 24,700 19
> Assemblies of God 22,200 20
> Christian Science 25,800 21
> Evangelical 21,900 22
> Brethren 18,500 23
> Christian 20,700 24
> Nazarene 21,600 25
> Baptist 20,600 26
> Pentacostal 19,400 27
> 7th-Day Adventist 22,700 28
> Holiness 13,700 29
> Jehovah's Witness 20,900 30
>
> Status is a composite of four measures: income, percent with college
> degree, percent full-time year-round workers, percent homeowners.
> NRMs are New Religious Movements (Scientology, New Age, Ekankar, etc.)
>
> source: Barry A. Kosmin & Seymour P. Lachman, One Nation Under God:
> Religion in Contemporary American Society (New York: Crown/Harmony,
> 1994)
>
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