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Ethical Culture (Kraut, Encyclopedia of Religion, 1987)

Encyclopedia.com, read 2026-08-16

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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.

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Author
Benny Kraut
Publisher
Encyclopedia of Religion, republished on Encyclopedia.com
Publication Year
1987
URL
https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ethical-culture
Source Type
encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
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.
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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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