Faith Communities Today 2005 Study
The interfaith coalition of denominations and faith groups that conducted the Faith Communities Today 2000 national survey of congregations has just formalized their continued partnership as a membership-based program housed within the Hartford Seminary Institute for Religion Research. The Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership that developed out of that effort has several programmatic goals:
Creating and testing a financially viable methodology for regular national survey of congregations, each survey to include three layers of questions:
a. A repeated set of items to track changes and trends,
b. A specific set of topical items tied to a congregational resource, and
c. A unique set of new items of immediate public interest.
The first survey in this biennial series, FACT2005, with its results reported on this website.
(2) Creating an ongoing informative newsletter. If you would like to be put on the FACT mailing list, email fact@hartsem.edu
(3) Developing an approach to congregational resources that begins with a congregational situation requiring self-reflection, and then builds a topical module of supporting national survey items for inclusion in one of the biennial surveys, the results from which get built back into the congregational resource.
Membership in the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership is open to religious organizations and denominational agencies that share CCSP's interests in producing and promoting research based resources for congregational development; in mutually enhancing the capacity of religious organizations to create and disseminate such resources through cooperative approaches; and in providing information and understanding to the public through the media role of congregations in American society.
For information about the 2005 survey or membership in CCSP, please contact:
David A. Roozen
Chair, CCSP Advisory Committee
Director, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street, Hartford 06105
Phone: 860/509-9546 Fax: 860/509-9551
roozen@hartsem.edu
