Benny Kraut's "Ethical Culture" entry in the Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987, republished on Encyclopedia.com and read 2026-08-16, giving membership in American Ethical Culture societies as about 3,500 by 1930 and approximately 5,000 across more than twenty societies by the mid-1980s.
Facts
Citation
AuthorBenny Kraut
PublisherEncyclopedia of Religion, republished on Encyclopedia.com
Publication Year1987
URLhttps://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ethical-culture
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier two: a signed reference-work entry by Benny Kraut, a named scholar of the Ethical Culture movement (he also wrote the full-length scholarly monograph on Felix Adler this database separately holds), published in the Encyclopedia of Religion rather than a general tertiary compilation, giving named dated membership counts for 1930 and the mid-1980s. Connections
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This source names Ethical Culture directly: "Benny Kraut's "Ethical Culture" entry in the Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987, republished on Encyclopedia.com and read 2026-08-16, giving membership in American Ethical Culture societies as about..."
Source Ethical Culture (Kraut, Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987)Benny Kraut
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Denominations, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
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