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Anderson County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,756 8,233   3,452 1,123 18,766
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 57 32,116 470.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 17 6,799 99.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,182 17.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 870 12.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 433 6.3
Catholic Church Catholic 3 3,300 48.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 172 2.5
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 3 72 1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 418 6.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 919 13.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 119 1.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 351 5.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 241 3.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 398 5.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 280 4.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 128 1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 396 5.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 282 4.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 49 0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 34 0.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 370 5.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 360 5.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 104 1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 532 7.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 11 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 647 9.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 261 3.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,017 14.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 124 51,876  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 68,250. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (51,876) include 76.0% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.