Unchurched Belt

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The Unchurched Belt is a fluid socio-geographic region of the Western United States characterized by relatively low rates of active religious, namely Christian, participation. The term Unchurched Belt is an informal designation primarily used in the context of the anthropological and sociological studies of American religion, American religious demographics, and American Christianity to describe areas with low church attendance, particularly within established and traditional Christian denominations. The term derives from "Bible Belt" and the concept of the unchurched, the latter referring to populations of Christians whose adherence to and practice of the religion does not include regular attendance in church congregations or parishes or at church worship services. The belt was originally found in the West and Northwestern United States, but has moved over the decades. The term was first applied to the West Coast of the United States in 1985 by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge...

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