In a Canadian study on refusal of immunization, it was also reported that for Dutch immigrants (belonging to religious congregations related to the denominations described here) religious arguments were decisive [ 27].
The denomination was sometimes described as "Southern culture at prayer".
"Vaals has always been a very plural place," Van Loo says, describing how 18th-century Catholics and Protestants of all denominations could worship in the town when it was forbidden elsewhere.
The Web site describes the denomination as independent and "observant of the canons and tradition of Holy Orthodoxy".
And in a speech at the assembly, Bishop Hanson asked delegates if they would describe the denomination "as a church in a state of anxiety or a church in a state of urgency".
The movement's problems, many agree, begin with its name, which has nothing to do with political conservatism and doesn't accurately describe a denomination that accepts openly gay and lesbian rabbis and believes the Bible is open to interpretation.
Tuesday's report indicated that people are now more comfortable describing their religion in terms that match their practice, with a 10percentt drop in the number of people who identify with a denomination but seldom or never attend services.
On Sept. 5, the Vatican issued a document by Cardinal Ratzinger that laid out the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and described other denominations as "deficient".
Brian Helstrom, who oversees distribution of the film for the Church of the Nazarene, an evangelical denomination based in Kansas City, Mo., described a screening in a village in Phaphamani, an area of South Africa that had been largely passed over by missionaries.
The subjects were asked to describe their religious denominations, how frequently they attended services, how much strength and comfort they received from religion, the number of people they knew in their congregation and how religious they were.
