Sunday church attendance as weekly lived practice

CTL-E-1323 · Practice · other · 1915–1999

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The all-day Sunday rhythm — Sunday school, morning worship, dinner, evening service — across mainline, Pentecostal, and storefront churches; the week's social and spiritual anchor.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-060; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Wallace Best (Princeton University Press, 2005); cited in Cambridge article DOI 10.1017/S000964072300210X (2023)
James B. Stronks, Names journal (1964), via ans-names.pitt.edu (primary source)
'The storefront church ministry in African American communities of the urban North during the Great Migration' (FreeLibrary; cites Drake & Cayton 1962, Grossman 1989)
FreeLibrary storefront-church article (citing standard scholarship)
Dave Jordano, Articles of Faith (2009)

Record CTL-E-1323 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 5 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: LIFE-001.
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