The Current religious landscape - Denominational Switiching

Defintion of denominational switching

the movement of ppl from one denomination of Christianity to another

What two churchs is denominational switching most popular in

• Pentecostal

• protestant

Why is denominational switching imporant

Depicts the internal religious reshaping of the religous landscape of Christianity
Shows how expresstion of faith is shifting over time and the social trends that cause it to shift.

What church is the MOST shaped by denominational switching

Pentecostal

What are the two main sources of inflow of participants in Penticostal Churches

• older protestant churches

• Young aged - teens and twenties

What is the outflow and the size of the outflow of people from penetcostal churches in aus?

Large outflow
People leaving - the prepotion of penetcostal people who had been attending the same church for 5+ years never rose above 50% of the total Pente. church population. - 1996 - 2016 National Church Life Survey

What is the overall growth of Pentecostal church denominational switching + what is it dependent on

Unstable
- growth dependent on : attraction of new young members + retention of current ones

What is the second largest church for denominational switching in aus?

Protestant church

What is the largest sources of inflow for protestant churchs - state stats from 3 yrs

Denominational switching is the largest inflow

• in 2001 13% of members came from denominational switching

• in 2011 16% of members came from denominational switching

• in 2016 14% of members came from denominational switching

What percentage of transfers made up the protestant church population?

11 - 13%

What are tranfers?

ppl. who have moved between congrigation of the same denomination

what is the influe of newcomers to protestant churches - stats

8% - 9%

What is the primary source of growth for protestant churchs

denominational switching

What is the stats from the church in QLD that demonstraghts the strongest trend of causes for denominational switching

Uniting Church QLD

• Denominational switchings are

In the Uniting Church QLD - Denominational switches are more likely to what? and what does this reveal

• denominational switches are x3 more likely then long term members to have been born outside aus in a non-english speaking country

• this reveals: trend that DS (denominational switching) is strongly linked to migration as the church traditions of their home country may differ from expresstions of faith in Aus, so they switch denominations untill they find the one that is right for them

What is the denomination that has the least DS - denomination switching?

The catholic church

If the catholic church has the miniminal amount of denominational switching where does it get its growth, stablity and members from?

• birth rates

• immigration from traditionally catholic countries

• amount of people leaving - shapes size