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<div id="home" class="accordion cell">
<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">Why "religious ecologies"?</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<figure class="float-left right landscape">
<img src="img/are-1.jpg" alt="">
<figcaption>Congregation Sha&rsquo;arai Shomayim, Mobile, Alabama, c.&nbsp;1910. <a href="https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/det/4a20000/4a23000/4a23600/4a23643v.jpg">Courtesy</a> of the Library of Congress.</figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="home-text">
<p>While some Americans have lived in rich religious ecologies, surrounded by a plethora of denominational choices, others have lived in places with only one or a few religious options. Using new and existing datasets, <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> documents and maps these environments. How did certain groups come to thrive in particular places, and how were they divided by race and social class? Did cities, towns, and rural areas feature meaningful religious pluralism and diversity, or were they dominated by some particular religious group? How did the balance of diversity and dominance vary across space and time?</p>
<p>While scholars have often studied the religious ecology of a particular city or place, studying how those ecologies varied across the nation has been difficult because of the lack of data that is available. The <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project is creating new datasets from historical sources and new ways of visualizing them so that we can better understand the history of American religion.</p>
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</div>
<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">Why "religious ecologies"?</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<div class="home-text">
<p>
While some Americans have lived in rich religious ecologies,
surrounded by a plethora of denominational choices, others have lived
in places with only one or a few religious options. Using new and
existing datasets, <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> documents and
maps these environments. How did certain groups come to thrive in
particular places, and how were they divided by race and social class?
Did cities, towns, and rural areas feature meaningful religious
pluralism and diversity, or were they dominated by some particular
religious group? How did the balance of diversity and dominance vary
across space and time?
</p>
<p>
While scholars have often studied the religious ecology of a
particular city or place, studying how those ecologies varied across
the nation has been difficult because of the lack of data that is
available. The <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project is
creating new datasets from historical sources and new ways of
visualizing them so that we can better understand the history of
American religion.
</p>
</div>
<figure class="float-right left landscape">
<img src="img/are-1.jpg" alt="" />
<figcaption>
Congregation Sha&rsquo;arai Shomayim, Mobile, Alabama, c.&nbsp;1910.
<a
href="https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/det/4a20000/4a23000/4a23600/4a23643v.jpg"
>Courtesy</a
>
of the Library of Congress.
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h3>Follow the Project</h3>
<div class="home-content">
<div class="home-columns">
<div class="home-column__item">
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width:100%;
display: flex;
margin: auto auto;
box-sizing: border-box;
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display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
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#mc_embed_signup input.email {
display: inline-block;
width: 250px;
height: 56px;
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height: 45px;
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<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h3>Follow the Project</h3>
<div class="home-content">
<div class="home-columns">
<div class="home-column__item">
<!-- Begin Mailchimp Signup Form -->
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#mc_embed_signup {
clear: left;
width: 100%;
display: flex;
margin: auto auto;
box-sizing: border-box;
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#mc_embed_signup .button {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
}
#mc_embed_signup input.email {
display: inline-block;
width: 250px;
height: 56px;
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#mc_embed_signup input.email {
height: 45px;
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display: inline-block;
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<div class="home-column__item">
<p><a href="blog" class="button">Read our blog on historical data and American religion.</a></p>
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<input
type="submit"
value="Subscribe to our newsletter."
name="subscribe"
id="mc-embedded-subscribe"
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<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">Digitizing the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<figure class="float-right left portrait">
<img src="img/are-2.jpg" alt="">
<figcaption>A schedule filled out by an Adventist congregation in rural North Carolina in 1926.</figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="home-text">
<p> There are few comprehensive and detailed datasets for studying American religion before the middle of the twentieth century, except the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. At the start of the twentieth century, Congress authorized the U.S. Census Bureau to survey the nation&rsquo;s &ldquo;religious bodies.&rdquo; For five decades, the Bureau partnered with religious organizations to identify hundreds of thousands of individual congregations across the country, asking them to report on their membership by sex and age, as well as on their educational programs, buildings, budget, and clergy. The vast majority of the several hundred denominations the Census Bureau identified were Christian, but Jews, Bahá’ís, and Theosophists, and other non-Christian groups participated as well.</p>
<p>The hefty volumes of data published from these Religious Bodies censuses let us see the national picture, but the individual schedules reveal a far richer picture of congregational diversity at the local level. Congress authorized the destruction of the schedules from some of the censuses, and others have been lost. Only the schedules from the 1926 census still survive. These schedules, however, are a treasure trove of congregation- and place-specific data and contribute to a fuller and more vivid depiction of the religious landscape of the early twentieth-century United States. With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project is digitizing the 232,154 schedules from the 1926 census.</p>
<a href="https://omeka.religiousecologies.org" class="button">Browse schedules from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.</a>
</div>
<div class="home-column__item">
<p>
<a href="blog" class="button"
>Read our blog on historical data and American religion.</a
>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">New datasets and maps for American religious history</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<figure class="float-left right portrait">
<img src="img/are-3.jpg" alt="">
<figcaption>A <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102366493">visualization</a> of the ratio of male to female members by denomination created by the Census Bureau from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.</figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="home-text">
<p>The <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project seeks to understand how congregations from different religious traditions related to one another by creating and visualizing new datasets. Datasets, maps, and other visualizations are one way of approaching the questions that we have asked, because they allow us to work at multiple scales, seeing how individual congregations fit into a local religious ecologies and then how local ecologies differed across space. In addition to making the schedules of the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies available on this website as photos of the records, we are transcribing the census schedules as well as parts of the published census reports into datasets. We have also started to gather data about American religion from other historical sources, such as collections of denominational yearbooks. As we create these datasets and map them, we hope to create a rich depiction of how congregations related to one another in their local environments.</p>
<a href="visualizations" class="button">See our visualizations of American religious history.</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">
New datasets and maps for American religious history
</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<figure class="float-left right portrait">
<img src="img/are-3.jpg" alt="" />
<figcaption>
A
<a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102366493"
>visualization</a
>
of the ratio of male to female members by denomination created by the
Census Bureau from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="home-text">
<p>
The <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project seeks to understand
how congregations from different religious traditions related to one
another by creating and visualizing new datasets. Datasets, maps, and
other visualizations are one way of approaching the questions that we
have asked, because they allow us to work at multiple scales, seeing
how individual congregations fit into a local religious ecologies and
then how local ecologies differed across space. In addition to making
the schedules of the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies available on this
website as photos of the records, we are transcribing the census
schedules as well as parts of the published census reports into
datasets. We have also started to gather data about American religion
from other historical sources, such as collections of denominational
yearbooks. As we create these datasets and map them, we hope to create
a rich depiction of how congregations related to one another in their
local environments.
</p>
<a href="visualizations" class="button"
>See our visualizations of American religious history.</a
>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">Digitizing the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies</h2>
<div class="home-content">
<figure class="float-right left portrait">
<img src="img/are-2.jpg" alt="" />
<figcaption>
A schedule filled out by an Adventist congregation in rural North
Carolina in 1926.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="home-text">
<p>
There are few comprehensive and detailed datasets for studying
American religion before the middle of the twentieth century, except
the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. At the start of the twentieth
century, Congress authorized the U.S. Census Bureau to survey the
nation&rsquo;s &ldquo;religious bodies.&rdquo; For five decades, the
Bureau partnered with religious organizations to identify hundreds of
thousands of individual congregations across the country, asking them
to report on their membership by sex and age, as well as on their
educational programs, buildings, budget, and clergy. The vast majority
of the several hundred denominations the Census Bureau identified were
Christian, but Jews, Bahá’ís, and Theosophists, and other
non-Christian groups participated as well.
</p>
<p>
The hefty volumes of data published from these Religious Bodies
censuses let us see the national picture, but the individual schedules
reveal a far richer picture of congregational diversity at the local
level. Congress authorized the destruction of the schedules from some
of the censuses, and others have been lost. Only the schedules from
the 1926 census still survive. These schedules, however, are a
treasure trove of congregation- and place-specific data and contribute
to a fuller and more vivid depiction of the religious landscape of the
early twentieth-century United States. With the generous support of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
<em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project is digitizing the
232,154 schedules from the 1926 census.
</p>
<a href="https://omeka.religiousecologies.org" class="button"
>Browse schedules from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.</a
>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="accordion-item is-active">
<h2 class="home-title">Learn about the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies</h2>
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