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	% Change
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,444	1054.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+507	347.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+156	166.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+178	137.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+329	104.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+157	92.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+216	80.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+124	50.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-7	+2,674	9.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	9.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+246	8.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+82	7.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+32	3.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+9	2.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-48	-18.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,374	-20.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-72	-43.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-424	-56.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+146	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+118	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+62	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+312	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+55	n.a.
	Totals:	-2	+4,967	+10.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 67,346; in 2000 it was 71,330. The total population changed 4.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (47,556) represent 70.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (52,564) include 73.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 47,172 adherents in 1980 and 52,139 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.5%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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