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Shreveport-Bossier City, LA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

152,112 36,992 610 23,671 4,421 174,496
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 116 119,676 305.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 57 27,272 69.5
Catholic Church Catholic 18 23,671 60.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 33 9,695 24.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 33 4,784 12.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 4,455 11.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 4,000 10.2
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 24 3,544 9.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 10 3,171 8.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 15 3,021 7.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,852 4.7
Muslim Estimate Other Theology 3 1,827 4.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,481 3.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 1,236 3.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,134 2.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,040 2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,028 2.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 875 2.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 763 1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 600 1.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 516 1.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 400 1.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 356 0.9
Vineyard USA Evangelical Protestant 2 323 0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 308 0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 210 0.5
Bahá'í Other Theology 1 132 0.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 126 0.3
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The Orthodox 1 94 0.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 82 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 68 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 0 0.0
Coptic Orthodox Church Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 388 217,806  
Total (Adjusted)**:   329,861  
The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 376,330; in 2000 it was 392,302. The total population changed 4.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (217,806) include 55.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (329,861) include 84.1% 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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