church-goers

The figure shows, for example, that in the early 1970s about 12 percent of all Americans were regular evangelical church-goers, a figure that had risen to about 15 percent by the mid-1980s.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Charisma and personality, combined with a rousing ability to preach and elicit cathartic spiritual responses are highly valued by black church-goers.3 W.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

But for all the commentary about how religion has divided our country, there is a common link binding America's church-goers during this economic crisis.

Curtis Valentine: Filling the Government Gap: Churches and Community Coping Curtis Valentine 2010

It well might, but here's the rub: it might not actually help Gingrich much, given the poor-to-fair standing of the Catholic hierarchy with many Catholic church-goers.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Could Newt Gingrich Win the "Catholic" Vote? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

But for all the commentary about how religion has divided our country, there is a common link binding America's church-goers during this economic crisis.

Curtis Valentine: Filling the Government Gap: Churches and Community Coping Curtis Valentine 2010

But for all the commentary about how religion has divided our country, there is a common link binding America's church-goers during this economic crisis.

Curtis Valentine: Filling the Government Gap: Churches and Community Coping Curtis Valentine 2010

It well might, but here's the rub: it might not actually help Gingrich much, given the poor-to-fair standing of the Catholic hierarchy with many Catholic church-goers.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Could Newt Gingrich Win the "Catholic" Vote? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

And it's not too early to start looking for Catholic "surrogates" who can help translate the president's flailing economic agenda into terms that middle class White and Hispanic church-goers in swing districts, hard-hit by recession and joblessness, can readily understand, and embrace.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Could Newt Gingrich Win the "Catholic" Vote? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

And it's not too early to start looking for Catholic "surrogates" who can help translate the president's flailing economic agenda into terms that middle class White and Hispanic church-goers in swing districts, hard-hit by recession and joblessness, can readily understand, and embrace.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Could Newt Gingrich Win the "Catholic" Vote? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

But for all the commentary about how religion has divided our country, there is a common link binding America's church-goers during this economic crisis.

Curtis Valentine: Filling the Government Gap: Churches and Community Coping Curtis Valentine 2010