Glenn Firebaugh, Brian Harley, Trends in U.S. Church Attendance: Secularization and Revival, or Merely Lifecycle Effects?, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 487-500
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