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Researchers estimated Friday that the report, titled "Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000," does not include some 8 million black American Christians

Christian Fundamentalism

Northern California bucks some national trends in a new study of religious adherence in the United States -- with conservative churches in the Bay Area losing ground and at least one liberal denomination on the rise.

Methodists are among the local winners and Mormons the losers, according to detailed county-by-county statistics released Friday at the annual conference of the Religion Newswriters Association.
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But in the 10 counties of metropolitan San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose -- which included Santa Cruz in addition to the nine counties ringing the bay -- the Latter-day Saints declined 9.3 percent, from 96,972 adherents to 87,993.

Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant denomination and one of its most conservative, grew nationally but shrank by nearly 20 percent in the 10-county area.

Bay Area's faithful more liberal than their national counterparts



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Researchers estimated Friday that the report, titled "Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000," does not include some 8 million black American Christians
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