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Why did more Americans join the religious organizations and attend church?

The standard narrative of American religious decline goes something like ... As the United States became more secular, people slowly began drifting away from faith. ... are less likely to attend services or identify with a religious group than ... While Americans on the whole are still going to church and other ...

written by alan ward and published in 2003. ward is a historian and was a professor at the university of connecticut.

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