Gains in church membership and church workers as a result of Sunday schools; losses from Sunday schools and reasons for children leaving (2448)

Type of Data: Gains in church membership and church workers as a result of Sunday schools; losses from Sunday schools and reasons for children leaving (2448)

Faith Community: Christianity (Free Churches)

Date: 1956?

Geography: England

Sample Size: 500 Sunday schools and 961 young people

Population: Sunday schools and young people who had left Sunday school

Keywords: Church membership, religious education, Sunday school

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire (Sunday schools) and face-to-face interview (young people)

Collection Agency: Free Church Federal Council

Sponsor: Free Church Federal Council, British Lessons Council, National Sunday School Union and Westhill Training College

Published Source:

Sunday Schools Today: An Investigation of Some Aspects of Christian Education in English Free Churches, London: Free Church Federal Council, [1957]

Philip Basil Cliff, The Rise and Development of the Sunday School Movement in England, 1780-1980, Nutfield: National Christian Education Council, 1986, pp. 278-80

BRIN ID: 2448

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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