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November 2015

November 04, 2015

Want to Live Longer? Go to Church

When I was growing up, I was a kid. My friends were kids, too. As...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

If Physicians Acted Like Sociologists (or, Why We’re Mostly Irrelevant)

Imagine a physician seeing a patient who has been diagnosed with cancer. If that physician...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Marti and Ganiel’s The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

The Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is making a big splash in American Christianity, and so...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

How Christians Vary in their Awareness of God

The SoulPulse study has taken two years and a bunch of money to develop, and...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Data and Spirituality

I've been thinking lately about the interface between data and spirituality, and while I have...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Denominational Change in American Protestantism since 1972

One of the more robust trends in American Christianity--at least its Protestant side--is the decreasing...

May 02, 2013

Are We Losing the Young? Evangelicals by Age Since 1972 (Part II)

In my last post, I looked at the relationship between age and Evangelical affiliation here in...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Are We Losing the Young? Evangelicals by Age Since 1972

One of the loudest fear messages that we hear in American Evangelical Christianity is that...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

How Many Americans are Evangelical Christians? Born-Again Christians?

(Part 2 in a series on Evangelical Christianity in America) In my last post, I...

March 21, 2013

What, Exactly, Is Evangelical Christianity?

(Part 1 in a series on Evangelical Christianity in America) There is much confusion about...

March 07, 2013

Trends in the Religious Unaffiliated, the “Nones,” by Age

Last week I posted a figure showing the rise of the religiously unaffiliated over the...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

The Rise of the Unaffiliated–The Religious Nones

One of the big changes in American religion over the past several decades has been...

February 14, 2013

Does Christianity, Like Not Eating a Marshmallow, Make You More Successful in Life?

A longstanding theme in the sociology of religion is how religious beliefs and practices affect...

February 07, 2013

The Power of a Simple Plan, But Should Christians Do It?

In the 1990s, a sociology psychologist named Peter Gollwitzer conducted a fabulously useful experiment. He...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

The Difficulties of Racially-Integrated Churches

I have been reading the sociological literature on race and religion, especially multiracial churches. A...

January 17, 2013

Do Students Remember Anything They Learn in Class? Probably Not, So….

In preparing for another semester, I am struck yet again by how very little I...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Should Parents Force Their Children to Attend Church?

In preparing my classes for this coming semester, I reviewed one of the best known...

December 06, 2012

Can money buy happiness?

Apparently yes, if it is spent correctly. I wonder if this makes routine tithing as...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

How do we know if people are flourishing?

As Margarita Mooney so ably put forth in a previous post, Sociology is in need...

November 22, 2012

Theory of Self Determination and Christianity

One of the joys of being an academic is reading in a wide range of...

November 15, 2012

Mastery Goals and Working Out Our Salvation

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals is a wonderfully interesting book by Heidi Grant...

November 01, 2012

What is “Positive” Sociology?

Last week, Margarita has a very interesting post about positive psychology and it's implications for...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Map of Religious Diversity in America

Yet another interesting map from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. This gets...

October 11, 2012

Where the Protestants Roam: Map of Protestant Denominations in the US

Protestantism, and its decline, has been in the news a lot this week with a...

October 04, 2012

Why we overestimate the prevalence of abusive priests, dishonest pastors, and unloving congregations

Cognitive heuristics are mental shortcuts--rules of thumbs--that we use to make judgments about ourselves and...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

More thoughts on homophily and faith

After writing about religion and social homophily (i.e., like people grouping together), I became aware...

September 13, 2012

Social Similarity & Faith

I've been thinking a lot about social similarity lately, and maybe you have too (uh,...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Update on the Regnerus situation

Here's an update on the brouhaha over Mark Regnerus' study. As it should have, the complaint against...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

The Case of Mark Regnerus: An Academic Auto-da-Fé

Here's an insightful op-ed piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Christian Smith, of...

July 12, 2012

Map of religion in the United States

Here's an interesting map that shows the largest religious groups for each county in the...

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