This survey of Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach participants was part of a large research grant from the Lilly Endowment to study rapidly growing non-mainline churches. Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach (Hermosa Beach, CA) was one of four non-mainline churches surveyed.
- Data File
- Cases: 678
Variables: 150
Weight Variable: None - Data Collection
- Date Collected: June, 1992
- Funded By
- The Lilly Endowment, Inc.
- Collection Procedures
- Self-administered surveys
- Sampling Procedures
- Surveys were distributed on four consecutive Sunday services in 1992. Although Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach did not have a membership list, the principal investigators estimate (see Perrin, Kennedy and Miller, 1997) that between 50% and 60% of those regularly attending the church completed the survey.
- Principal Investigators
- Donald E. Miller
- Related Publications
- Miller, Donald E. (1997). Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Perrin, Robin D., Paul Kennedy and Donald E. Miller. (1997). "Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth: Where Are the New Evangelical Movements Getting their Numbers?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 36(1), 71-80.
