Evangelscape: Spiritual Topography
The Evangelscape provides a snapshot of six issues related to the spiritual aspect of the social environment, social groups, and social enclaves in the community. These six issues are:
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How many community households can we reasonably expect are unreached by evangelicalism?
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How many community households can we reasonably expect would classify themselves as an “evangelical,” who are also active in an evangelical church?
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How many community households can we reasonably expect would classify themselves as “evangelical,” but who are NOT active in an evangelical church?
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What percentage of the community households consider themselves to be involved in a church or organized religion?
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To what degree are the community households interested in spirituality?
To what degree are the community households not interested in spirituality or religion?
The Evangelscape is
based upon several questions in the 2007 National Consumer Study
of 57,000 households nationwide conducted by the Simmons Market
Research Bureau, Inc. (SMRBI) as indexed against the MOSAIC USA
Lifestyle Segmentation by Experian.
IICM has analyzed the data related to the social
enclaves, social groups, and social environments across the
United States.
The Evangelscape is a major barometer of the spiritual
condition of your community.
The “active” vs.
“inactive” estimates are based on localized estimates
developed by the TheAmericanChurch.org as indexed against the
MOSAIC USA Lifestyle Segmentation.
The “potential religious but not evangelical” category includes not only
mainline Protestants and Catholics who do not consider
themselves to be evangelical, but also adherents to cults and
world religions. The
“spiritual but not
religious” category primarily consists of people who
consider spirituality important – but do not see institutional
evangelical Christianity as having any answers to their quest
for spirituality.
The final category, “non-evangelical and not interested in religion or spirituality”
consists of the group of people for whom religion, Christianity,
and spirituality appears to have no influence.
Taken together, the reports provide a picture of both the
lostness and some of the socio-religious barriers to the spread
of the gospel in the community.
The Missional Culturescape provides access to the spiritual topography of your community. FREE ACCESS is provided to all members of the Intercultural Institute (registered users) to map and obtain reports concerning the UNREACHED STATUS at the 9 layers of geography listed below. Access to the other evangelscape categories is open to subscribers of the Missional Culturescape. Tier 1 and Tier 2 subscribers may map and get reports for each of the items at the display levels available for the tier. Tier 3 subscribers may map and report the evangelscape at all 9 display levels. Usage of the maps and reports are limited to use for non-profit, missional purposes.
| STATE | REGION in State |
DMA | CBSA | COUNTY | CITY PLACES > 10K |
ZIP CODE |
CENSUS TRACT |
BLOCK GROUP |
INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION | |
| Data | Display Level 1a |
Display Level 1b |
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| Unreached Status | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | FREE Access |
| Active Evangelical Presence | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | Tier3 Access |
| Inactive Evangelical Presence | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | Tier3 Access |
| Religious But Not Evangelical | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | Tier3 Access |
| Spiritual But Not Religious | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | Tier3 Access |
| Non-Evangelical Not Interested | State | STPA | DMA | CBSA | County | Places | Zip | Tract | Blockgrp | Tier3 Access |
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