Table of Contents

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS DISAFFILIATION
Religious Disaffiliation - David G Bromley
A Neglected Social Process
PART TWO: DISAFFILIATION FROM MAINLINE CHURCHES
Apostasy in American Churches - C Kirk Hadaway and Wade Clark Roof
Evidence from National Survey Data
Another Look at Conversion and Defection in Conservative Churches - Lynn D Nelson and David G Bromley
Religious Leave-Taking - Stan L Albrecht, Marie Cornwall and Perry H Cunningham
Disengagement and Disaffiliation Among Mormons
Why Catholics Drop Out - Dean R Hoge
Leaving Catholic Convents - Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
Toward a Theory of Disengagement
Disaffiliation, Desacralization and Political Values - Lynn D Nelson
PART THREE: DISAFFILIATION FROM ALTERNATIVE RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Leaving New Religious Movements - Stuart A Wright
Issues, Theory and Research
Defection from the Unification Church - Eileen Barker
Some Statistics and Distinctions
Deprogramming as a Mode of Exit from New Religious Movements - David G Bromley
The Case of the Unificationist Movement
Between Two Worlds - Susan Rothbaum
Issues of Separation and Identity After Leaving a Religious Community
The Impact of Apostates on the Trajectory of Religious Movements - John R Hall
The Case of Peoples Temple