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→Baylor University researchers indicate that American Christianity is not on the decline
Melton cited the Encyclopedia of American Religion and the 2010 American Religious Census to show that, as the American population has risen, church membership in America has risen at a much quicker rate.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/christianity-not-declining-america-baylor-university-professors-149644/ Christianity Is Not Declining in America, Baylor University Professors Say], Christian Post, November 11, 2015</ref>}}
Melton cited the Encyclopedia of American Religion and the 2010 American Religious Census to show that, as the American population has risen, church membership in America has risen at a much quicker rate.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/christianity-not-declining-america-baylor-university-professors-149644/ Christianity Is Not Declining in America, Baylor University Professors Say], Christian Post, November 11, 2015</ref>}}
The Baylor University website similarly declares:
{{cquote|Recent coverage of American religious life, by focusing on the decline of some of the larger denominations and the new organized life of non-theistic communities, have missed the larger story that since World War II, religion in the United States has grown spectacularly and ahead of the population curve. America is now the most religious it has ever been with Church membership at an all-time high and relatively new worshipping communities representing the spectrum of the world's religions now spread across the urban landscape. As a nation in which the great majority of its people have affiliated with a religious community, without government coercion, America is possibly the most religious country that the world has ever seen.”<ref>[http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=162855 Scholars Will Challenge “Secularization Myth” Nov. 10 at National Press Club]</ref>}}
== American 1990s secularism ==
== American 1990s secularism ==