Knox County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

161,520	51,499	898	15,367	7,657	145,091
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^†
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	2	0	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	434	1.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,164	5.7
Bahá'í	Other Theology	2	95	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	664	1.7
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	15,367	40.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	954	2.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,280	6.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	119	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,062	13.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	124	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	5	1,541	4.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	410	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,392	8.9
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,868	4.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	9	5,023	13.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,185	5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,739	7.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	4,281	11.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	154	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	792	2.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,950	5.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	6,295	16.5
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	0.4
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	151	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	168	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	1,800	4.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,755	4.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	3,609	9.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	825	2.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	106	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	30	9,759	25.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	6,002	15.7
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	381	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	628	1.6
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	187	120,315	314.9
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	612	1.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	66	32,034	83.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	85	0.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	157	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	453	236,941
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		278,120

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 335,749; in 2000 it was 382,032. The total population changed 13.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (236,941) include 62.0% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (278,120) include 72.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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