How To Use Churchgoing In A Sentence
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He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
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There was often a correlation between churchgoing habits in urban areas and their rural hinterland.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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And in general all churchgoing Latinos tend to see themselves as renewing Christianity in America.
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Literacy and Christianity, for example, have given even nonliterate, non-churchgoing women new vocabulary and symbols for conceptualizing, and sometimes contesting, local practices and meanings related to traditional feminine qualities, duties, and roles.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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The increase is reflected across the ethnic minority Christian communities, although it is not yet large enough to offset the continuing decline in churchgoing overall.
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According to the National Election Studies archives, weekly churchgoing among college-educated white men almost doubled in little more than a decade between 1952 and 1964 from about 29 percent to about 53 percent.
American Grace
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Until there is more transparency in church finances, it appears that a significant number of churchgoing Catholics will be withholding financial support from the church.
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Finland is about 98 percent Lutheran but only about 2 percent churchgoing, so Lutheran notions of sin and grace are long forgotten by most Finns.
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Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice.
Surprised by Joy
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Nor is there much evidence to support the idea that the vast majority of churchgoing Catholics are eager to become Benedictine oblates.
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Then, as now, getting married, settling down, and raising children were associated with more regular churchgoing.
American Grace
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What is the attitude of her community towards her lapse in churchgoing?
Clara Callan by Richard B Wright: Questions
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Since these are interviews with the same people at different points in time, we can be confident that the emergence of the religiosity divide has entailed some individual-level change, as churchgoing and partisanship have come into alignment.
American Grace
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But what is crying out for an explanation is why every bubble-head TV news anchorette from a nice, churchgoing red state ends up adopting the political views of Karl Marx.
Archive 2009-05-10
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This effect probably owes something to her experience of churchgoing, from which she would have learnt the Anglican practice of ‘pointing’ psalms.
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However, virtually all the other commonly cited reasons for churchgoing were more social than theological.
American Grace
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There was an appeal that had been filed in the Supreme Court by the attorneys of a skinhead whod written the word towelhead in white paint on the driveway of his employer, a Pakistani convenience store owner whod fired him for being drunk on the job; some research about why the words under God had been added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 during the McCarthy era; and a stack of mail equally balanced between desperate souls who wanted me to fight on their behalf and right-wing conservatives who berated the ACLU for making it criminal to be a white churchgoing Christian.
Change of Heart
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The postwar boom in churchgoing was fueled above all by men who had survived the Great Depression as teenagers and World War II as grunts, and were now ready at last to settle into a normal life, with a steady job, a growing family, a new house and car, and respectable middle-class status.
American Grace
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Perhaps surprisingly, urban Protestant churchgoing started to decline as Sunday school attendance was growing.
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Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964.
American Grace
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Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964.
American Grace
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The most heavily Republican portion of the churchgoing population is people who rely on religion when making political decisions and are embedded in a dense religious social network, not the people who hear the most politics in church.28
American Grace
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If so, you do not recognize leadership and the execution of a brilliant tactic, that puts Democrats back in play with that'churchgoing 'partof the electorate.
Obama: Let's End "Divisive Politics And Tit-For-Tat"
