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By Robert Wuthnow

ISBN-10: 019025890X

ISBN-13: 9780190258900

this present day, a billion-dollar-a-year polling floods the media with info. Pollsters let us know not just which political applicants will win, yet how we're training our religion. what percentage american citizens went to church final week? Have they been born back? Is Jesus as renowned as Harry Potter? Polls let us know that forty percentage of american citizens attend non secular companies every one week. They convey that African american citizens aren't any extra spiritual than white americans, and that Jews are leaving behind their faith in checklist numbers. in response to best sociologist Robert Wuthnow, none of that's right. Pollsters say that attendance at spiritual providers has been consistent for many years. yet in the course of that point reaction charges in polls have plummeted, robot "push ballot" calls have proliferated, and sampling has turn into more challenging. The accuracy of political polling may be recognized simply because elections truly take place. yet there are not any election effects to teach if the share of people that say they pray each day or attend companies a week is right. a wide majority of the general public doubts that polls should be depended on, and but evening after evening on television, polls specialists sum up the nation's conduct to an keen viewers of millions.

Inventing American faith offers a provocative new argument in regards to the impact of polls in modern American society. Wuthnow contends that polls and surveys have shaped-and distorted-how faith is known and portrayed within the media and in addition through spiritual leaders, practitioners, and students. He demands a powerful public dialogue approximately American faith that extends well past the data supplied by way of polls and surveys, and indicates useful steps to facilitate this kind of dialogue, together with adjustments in how the result of polls and surveys are presented.

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