After The Fall: The Impact Of Church Attendance In Eastern Europe

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A literature review discuses published information in a particular subject area, and sometime information in a particular subject area within a certain time period. A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources, but usually contain a summary and a synthesis. The author is Anea Cojoe, After the Fall: the impact of government regulation on church attendance in Eastern Europe, 1990-2004. This will focus on the impact of church attendance in Eastern Europe. I will give my opinion on how the researcher distinguished between research, theory, and opinion, and is the literature review critically. This critique will focus on the literature review of the publication. This publication talks about the studies on low attendance at church. There are several reasons why people are not going to church. One of them was income. People who make a lot of money tend to go to church, where as people which does not make money don’t attend church. Church is a place where you should attend regardless of how much money you have. Social, economic people feel like they don’t need the church or …show more content…

Low Church attendance is happening all around and there are people who don't care about the church. That go if they want and if not they stay at home. People don’t attend anything like they use to. In some countries the government rules the church and religion and people feel like that is a reason not to go to church. The review established that government regulation has an impact on church attendance. If states have a government regulation then the weekly attendance of people at church will be low. If no government regulation then people will attend weekly church services and even Sunday services. Most state appointed churches pays a salary to the official in the church. Church should be something that people attend on their