Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.
Getting to Church contributes to the sociology of religion through its subtle and systematic attention to differences in women's and men's experiences of religious engagement. This attention to nuanced narratives offers a helpful corrective to simplistic accounts of gender difference in religious involvement... The comparative framework, longitudinal data, elegant writing, and inclusion of vivid narrative details in Getting to Church help us to see
the continued importance of distinct religious traditions for shaping belonging and purpose as the book makes a convincing case that religion in the United States is not going away anytime soon.
