I enjoy Good Magazine’s infographics. This recent one is interesting, mapping income levels in the USA among different religious groups. You can check it out here at The Almighty Dollar: Mapping Distribution by Religious Belief. Is there any truth to stereotypes? Just asking. Wish my Seventh-day Adventists had made it on this one. My guess, our average income is fairly high (at least in the USA). It’s been awhile, but I think Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart (not SDA’s) touched on this issue in Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventists and the American Dream. Premise, becoming an SDA was a way to move up the socio-economic scale for many people. Any thoughts Sevies?

2 Responses to “The Almighty Dollar”

1. Matt Burdette says:

   March 4, 2010 at 1:48 am

   You’re right about Seeking a Sanctuary–Bull and Lockhart did write that the average person who joins the Adventist church does so through a prophecy seminar, and they are usually lower-middle class; and because so many Adventists are employed by the church or by church organizations, and because Adventists emphasize education, most who join have a higher income by the time that they leave (and they usually leave).

   I wonder if Adventists were categorized as Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, or Other.
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