Books in the Social Trends in the United States series

Many observers assume that America is a far less religious nation than it was 40 years ago, but according to Greeley, this is untrue. Citing surveys conducted over the past half-century, Greeley concludes that rates of church attendance and membership, prayer, belief in an afterlife, and other measures of religious activity have remained constant.

Revised and enlarged, this edition has updated graphs and tables and also presents new findings on cohabitation and single life. It has a new chapter on the meaning of marriage in our society and the chapter on black-white differences is now an essay on relations among race, poverty and marriage.