Lawrence County, Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,530	3,497		1,914	349	13,636
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	280	7.0
Bahá'í	Other Theology	0	2	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	1,914	47.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	846	21.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	347	8.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	344	8.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	35	4,011	100.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	290	7.3
Independent Free Will Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	559	14.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	367	9.2
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	192	4.8
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	504	12.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	46	1.2
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	214	5.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	37	12,923	323.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	26	3,451	86.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	137	26,290
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		29,197

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 35,303; in 2000 it was 39,926. The total population changed 13.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (26,290) include 65.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (29,197) include 73.1% 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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