Modernist Protestant v. Mainline Protestant?
I'm guessing more of UCC versus say normal Episcopalians or Presbyterians or something. Don't really know.
The survey uses categories that classify predominantly white denominations as Evangelical Protestant, Mainline Protestant, or Catholic. These labels are applied to churches.
Then the authors use three sets of factors to subdivide each of these religions into Traditionalist, Centrist, or Modernist. These factors are applied to individual respondents. So, a single mainline church may have members that are traditionalist, centrist, and modernist.
The three sets of measures used each have a number of individual survey factors. The belief set measures include belief in God, belief in an afterlife, views of the Bible, existence of the Devil, evolution, and truth of all the world's religions. The behavior set measures include church attendance, financial support, private prayer, cripture reading, and small group participation. The identification measures were tailored to the specific self-identification with the Evangelical, Mainline or Catholic movements.
One of the dirty little facts about the Hispanic population in the US is that 40% of it is Protestant (esp. Pentecostal) and it is the part that is growing like crazy.
Same thing in Latin America: One of things that's really under the radar is that Protestant Pentecostals are converting Catholics like wildfire and actually form a majority in a couple of Latin American countries (Guatemala is one, iirc)
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Protestant Hispanic groups are rapidly growing. Our UCC church hosts Spanish-language Pentecostal and Anglican congregations. Most of these members were from Catholic ancestry, but sought a more charismatic faith.
