Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- I “As Slavery Never Did”: American Religion and the Rise of the City
- II “Numbering Israel”: United States Census Data on Religion
- III “An Infinite Variety of Religions”: The Meaning and Measurement of Religious Diversity
- IV “A Motley of Peoples and Cultures”: Urban Populations and Religious Diversity
- V “A New Society”: Industrialization and Religious Diversity
- VI “No Fast Friend to Policy or Religion”: Literacy and Religious Diversity
- VII “God's Bible at the Devil's Girdle”: Religious Diversity and Urban Secularization
- VIII “If the Religion of Rome Becomes Ours”: Religious Diversity, Subcultural Conflict, and Denominational Realignment
- IX “Matters Merely Indifferent”: Religious Diversity and American Denominationalism
- Appendixes
- A Cities in the Study
- B Church Membership and Population in 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- C Categorization of Religious Bodies, 1890 and 1906
- D Composition of Church Membership in 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- E A Typology of Urban Religious Change, 1890–1906
- F Religious Diversity Scores for 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- G A Note on Weighted Least Squares (WLS) Regression Analysis
- Notes
- References
- Index
A - Cities in the Study
from Appendixes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- I “As Slavery Never Did”: American Religion and the Rise of the City
- II “Numbering Israel”: United States Census Data on Religion
- III “An Infinite Variety of Religions”: The Meaning and Measurement of Religious Diversity
- IV “A Motley of Peoples and Cultures”: Urban Populations and Religious Diversity
- V “A New Society”: Industrialization and Religious Diversity
- VI “No Fast Friend to Policy or Religion”: Literacy and Religious Diversity
- VII “God's Bible at the Devil's Girdle”: Religious Diversity and Urban Secularization
- VIII “If the Religion of Rome Becomes Ours”: Religious Diversity, Subcultural Conflict, and Denominational Realignment
- IX “Matters Merely Indifferent”: Religious Diversity and American Denominationalism
- Appendixes
- A Cities in the Study
- B Church Membership and Population in 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- C Categorization of Religious Bodies, 1890 and 1906
- D Composition of Church Membership in 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- E A Typology of Urban Religious Change, 1890–1906
- F Religious Diversity Scores for 122 Cities, 1890 and 1906
- G A Note on Weighted Least Squares (WLS) Regression Analysis
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Listed alphabetically below are the 122 cities which serve as the units of analysis in the empirical portions of this study. They are the universe of cities in the United States with 25,000 or more inhabitants in 1890. The group originally numbered 124, but two places returned separately in the 1890 Census–Brooklyn and Long Island City, New York–were consolidated, under the Greater New York Charter of 1898, into boroughs of the City of New York. Formerly autonomous Brooklyn became one borough, whereas Long Island City was combined with several other municipalities to form the Borough of Queens. Statistics for Brooklyn and Long Island City in 1890 have been added to those of New York City in that year to simulate a geographical unit comparable to the New York of 1906.
Other cities as well grew by consolidation during this period, but the annexed areas were too small to have been returned as distinct urban places in the 1890 enumeration of religious organizations. Thus, data with which to make desired adjustments to religious measures are not available from published Census sources.
Data on changes in land area between 1890 and 1910 could be located (in McKenzie, 1933: 336–339) for 73 of the largest cities in the sample. Twenty cities experienced no growth in area during this period. Of the 53 cities that did add territory, the median increment was 6.4 square miles. These figures appear to validate Victor Jones's (1953: 551) observation that there occurred “few significant annexations after 1890” and before the immediate post-Second World War years.
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- Religious Diversity and Social ChangeAmerican Cities, 1890–1906, pp. 156 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988