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1. Religious background and interest in spiritual growth 30 2. Commitment to organized religion and interest in spiritual growth 37 3. Christian belief and interest in spiritual growth 41 4. Effort devoted to spiritual life and interest in spiritual growth 46 5. Service activities, religious experiences, and interest in spiritual growth 48 6. Distribution of religious preferences 50 7. Religious traditions and aspects of spirituality 51 8. Childhood exposure to the arts 60 9. Adults’ exposure to the arts 62 10. Americans’ expression of creativity 65 11. Validation of Artistic Interest Scale 67 12. Indicators of spirituality and scores on Artistic Interest Scale 71 13. Aspects of spirituality among people who pray frequently 86 14. Frequency of prayer among certain groups 87 15. People’s inclusion of artistic activities with prayer 88 16. Interest in spirituality, score on Artistic Interest Scale, and inclusion of music and art with prayer 90 17. Music and art in prayer and other aspects of religious experience 92 18. Music and art in prayer and attitudes about art and spirituality 92 Tables xi xii TABLES 19. Interest in spirituality, score on Artistic Interest Scale, and interest in spiritual direction 95 20. Crafts and music as aids in times of trouble 110 21. Kinds of people helped by arts 112 22. Attitudes of people helped by arts 113 23. Small groups in spiritual life and other aspects of spirituality 115 24. Participation in service activities 125 25. Evangelicals’, mainline Protestants’, and Catholics’ artistic involvement 138 26. Evangelicals’, mainline Protestants’, and Catholics’ views of spirituality and art 141 27. Artistic activities sponsored by different churches 143 28. Church members’ attitudes and congregational artistic activities 145 29. Church members on congregations’ sponsorship of artistic activities 147 30. Support for congregational arts programs among subgroups 150 31. Religious activities and satisfaction with church music 181 32. Americans’ exercise of religious imagination 186 33. Religious imagination among American subgroups 188 34. The public’s feeling about churches encouraging members’ creativity 211 35. The public’s negative views of the arts 215 36. Negative views of the arts and moral and religious concerns 216 37. Negative imagery of the arts among American subgroups 218 38. Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics on selected beliefs 220 39. Association between negative sermons about art and negative attitudes 222 40. Conservative clergy’s attitude toward art 223 41. Demographic and religious profile of respondents 251 42. Estimated odds-ratios from logistic regression analysis 252 ...

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