ARDA Tutoril Finding Informtion out Religious Group/Denomintion When we think of the religious lndspe of the United Sttes, we often think of something stti tht remins the sme from one yer to the next. An in-depth look, however, revels tht euse of its lrge numer of denomintions nd their propensities to hnge nmes, split, or even merge together, the religious lndspe of the U.S. n e quite omplited. In this tutoril we will review the denomintionl profiles setion of the ARDA wesite nd explore how to find informtion on individul denomintions nd how they vry ross the United Sttes nd over time. This tutoril will teh you how to omplish the following: 1) Getting Denomintionl Profile The denomintionl profile gives rief history of the denomintion nd informtion on its divisions, mergers, nd its yerly memership dt. 2) Viewing the Stte-y-Stte Distriution of Religious Denomintions in the United Sttes The stte-y-stte distriution will give you mp of denomintion s dherene rtes y stte nd tle of the rtes in the top five sttes. 3) Viewing Memership Trends in Speifi Denomintions The memership trends pge will give you look t the memership trends for denomintion, s well s trends for lergy nd ongregtions. 4) Compring Memers of Denomintions This omprison pge will llow you to ompre memers demogrphis, religiosity, nd ttitudes for different denomintions. 5) Exploring Denomintionl Fmily Trees The fmily trees will give you snpshot look t when different denomintions merged or split prt. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 1 of 6
Getting Denomintionl Profile 1) Go to the ARDA homepge: www.thearda.om. 3) A pop-up menu will pper under Religious Groups. 4) Clik on Group Profiles. 5) Clik the link for the religious group of the denomintion in whih you re interested (e.g., Methodist/Pietist). 6) On the next pge, lik the link for the denomintion in whih you re interested (e.g., United Methodist Churh). d. At the top of the sreen will e history of the denomintion, detiling mergers nd divisions.. Below this will e text summry of the history of the denomintion.. At the ottom of the pge will e tle of memership dt y yer. d. On the right is link to the denomintion s home pge. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 2 of 6
Viewing the Stte-y-Stte Distriution of Religious Denomintions in the United Sttes 1) Go to the ARDA homepge: www.thearda.om. 3) A pop-up menu will pper under Religious Groups. 4) Clik on Group Profiles. 5) Clik the link for the religious group of the denomintion in whih you re interested. 6) On the next pge, lik the link for the denomintion in whih you re interested. 7) Lote nd lik on the grey t mrked Distriution.. At the top of the pge is mp of the United Sttes, whih is olor-oded y rte of dherents for the seleted denomintion.. At the ottom of the mp is key desriing the vlues ssigned to the olor odes.. At the ottom of the pge is tle of the dherene rte for the top five sttes. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 3 of 6
Viewing Memership Trends in Speifi Denomintions 1) Go to the ARDA homepge: www.thearda.om. 3) A pop-up menu will pper under Religious Groups. 4) Clik on Group Profiles. 5) Clik the link for the religious group of the denomintion in whih you re interested. 6) On the next pge, lik the link for the denomintion in whih you re interested. 7) Lote nd lik on the grey t mrked Trends.. At the top of the pge is snpshot summry of the denomintion s memership trends.. Below tht re line grphs of the lergy, hurhes nd memership y yer.. At the ottom of the pge is tle of yer y yer dt detiling the denomintion s numer of lergy, hurhes, nd memers. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 4 of 6
Compring Memers of Denomintions 1) Go to the ARDA homepge: www.thearda.om. 3) A pop-up menu will pper under Religious Groups. 4) Clik on Group Profiles. 5) Clik the link for the religious group of the denomintion in whih you re interested. 6) On the next pge, lik the link for the denomintion in whih you re interested. 7) Lote nd lik on the grey t mrked Memer Profile. 8) Selet nother denomintion from the drop-down list to ompre memers demogrphis, religiosity, nd ttitudes.. View tles of memers demogrphis nd ttitudes.. Sroll down to see tles out memers religiosity.. Selet nother denomintion to ompre memers. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 5 of 6
Exploring Denomintionl Fmily Trees 1) Go to the ARDA homepge: www.thearda.om. 3) A pop-up menu will pper under Religious Groups. 4) Clik on Religion Fmily Trees. 5) Clik the link for the religious fmily in whih you re interested. d. Use the timeline to see when different denomintions split or merged.. Follow lines to find denomintions splitting off from others.. Follow lines to find denomintions merging with others. d. Mouse-over denomintion for si informtion on the denomintion. COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION DATA ARCHIVES 6 of 6