Thursday, March 12th, 2009

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7:40p

Institutionalized Religions Have Their Numbers Inflated by National Polls I've completely rewritten this page! The contents of "Institutionalized Religions Have Their Numbers Inflated by National Polls" by Vexen Crabtree (2009) is now: Established Religions Become Default Religions People Say They Attend Services Twice As Much as They Actually Do Popular Religions Diversify and Encompass Many Beliefs World Religions as Umbrella Terms Laypeople's Limited Theological Vocabulary Hides Diversity and Artificially Boosts an Established Religion's Numbers Cultural Ties Distort the Statistics of Religion Vague Beliefs Get Classified as Concurring With the Dominant Religion Hidden Secularisation It is Popular to Mistake Theism in General for the Dominant Religion Minority Religions Become Under-Represented in Polls Conclusion Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)

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