Clergy Attitudes Toward Deindustrialization: Religion and the Tofflerian Socio-economic Wave Model

How did the attitudes of clergy toward deindustrialization in 2007 differ between denominations affiliated with the 1977 Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley and denominations that were unaffiliated with the with the 1977 Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley? Youngstown, Ohio faced an economic crisis in 2007 similar to a crisis the city faced thirty years earlier in 1977. The research explored the difference in attitudes between clergy from denominations that were involved in the 1977 Youngstown steel crisis through affiliation with the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley, and clergy from denominations that were unaffiliated with the Coalition in 1977.