Lisa D. Pearce is the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor in Research and Undergraduate Education in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coauthor of A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents.Claire Chipman Gilliland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Religion and Its Trends 2. Complex Religion in America 3. A Demographic Perspective on Religious Change 4. Change in America’s Congregations 5. The Long Arm of Religion in America Conclusion Notes References Index

Lisa D. Pearce is the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor in Research and Undergraduate Education in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coauthor of A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents.Claire Chipman Gilliland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Religion and Its Trends 2. Complex Religion in America 3. A Demographic Perspective on Religious Change 4. Change in America’s Congregations 5. The Long Arm of Religion in America Conclusion Notes References Index

Lisa D. Pearce is the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor in Research and Undergraduate Education in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coauthor of A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents.Claire Chipman Gilliland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Religion and Its Trends 2. Complex Religion in America 3. A Demographic Perspective on Religious Change 4. Change in America’s Congregations 5. The Long Arm of Religion in America Conclusion Notes References Index