GOLDEN RULE CHRISTIANITY: LIVED RELIGION
                        IN THE AMERICAN MAINSTREAM

                                  by Nancy T. Ammerman

This chapter is reprinted from the book LIVED RELIGION IN AMERICA edited by David Hall (1997), Pp. 196-216 with permission from the Princeton University Press.

VANISHING BOUNDARIES, the recently published book by Hoge, Johnson, and Luidens,1

examines the religious lives of a cohort of baby boomers confirmed in Presbyterian churches in the 1950s and 1960s. The authors look for what has happened to them since and just what sort of religiosity, if any, they are practicing today. Among those who are currently connected to churches, a majority are what they call "lay liberals." This group scores low on...