The World Religions and Spirituality Project's scholarly profile of Community of Christ, stating approximately 74,000 members in 1914 under Joseph Smith III's leadership, and 200,000 members across sixty nations at the time of writing, with membership and finances having declined since peaking in the 1970s. Used here for the 1914 figure.
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Citation
PublisherWorld Religions and Spirituality Project
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://wrldrels.org/2022/12/11/21325/
Source Typeacademic reference
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: an academic religious-studies reference project (Virginia Commonwealth University), publishing scholarly profiles of new and minority religious movements with named authorship and editorial review. Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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