Religion In American Life

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for themselves. Among Catholics and Protestants, there is a
trend toward less rigid attendance of religious services. If we examine the
figures from Stark and Glock's 1968 survey, 54% of Americans surveyed at the
time attended church more often than once a month. This figure shrank to 40.7%
in the 1994 survey. Though the Catholic church insists on weekly attendance of
church, weekly attendance dropped from 52% in 1978 to 49% in 1986. Then,
attendance plummeted, with only 28.3% of Catholics surveyed in 1994 claiming to
have attended church in the last seven days. Even among those who remain with
the traditional Christian sects, attendance is diminishing. Christianity used to
be an integral part of most family and community customs and traditions in
America. It seems that as Americans' lives become more complex, less time is
available for formal religious commitments. Also, one may theorize that the
exponential growth of technology and education has rendered ...

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