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June 2012

June 28, 2012

In Appreciation of Mark Regnerus

In academics there are a handful of political and cultural issues for which there are...

June 14, 2012

Do We Do What is Important in Life?

At some point in my life, maybe last Tuesday, I realized that what I, and...

June 07, 2012

The Opportunity Cost of Cannibalism, A Reflection on Aging

For reasons that I don’t fully understand, I seem to be getting older every year;...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Ritual and Routine in Everyday Life & Faith

Over the weekend I did my laundry, as is my custom, and it took my...

May 24, 2012

Religious Affiliation and the Frequency of Orgasms

A apropos of nothing, here are some data about religion and sex. They come from the National Health...

May 17, 2012

Self-Selection into Situations and Church

In the past few years, I've started to notice just how often I choose to...

May 10, 2012

Gender and Christianity: Why Do Women Pray More?

Here's a very interesting article by Stanford anthropologist, Tanya Luhrmann, about gender and prayer. Specifically, she...

May 03, 2012

Worship and Place: Church Meeting in a Bar

Earlier this week I attended what a church calls their "Theology on Tap" series. In...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

Research on Religion Podcast turns 100

The Research on Religion Podcast turns 100 (episodes) this week. If you haven't checked it...

April 21, 2012

Map of US Religious Affiliation by County

This is one of my favorite maps of religion. It was produced by Glemary research,...

April 19, 2012

The Changing Understanding of Evangelical Conversion

There's a great article in Christianity Today about the changing nature of conversion. Because it's...

April 12, 2012

Five Questions to Describe a Christian

I'm just starting a very exciting research project in which we're looking to study day-to-day...

April 05, 2012

Who Experiences God’s Presence and How Often?

Who experiences God's presence the most often? It turns out that the General Social Survey...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Religious Prejudice in Sociology Gets Slammed

In academia, in general, and sociology, in particular, we constantly hear derogatory, prejudicial statements about...

March 22, 2012

The Social Construction of Christian Leaders as Hypocrites

Several years, ABC's newshow, 20/20, ran a story about a Southern California pastor, K.C. Price, and...

March 15, 2012

Are University Professors Prejudiced against Evangelical Christians?

Here are some rather disturbing data from a study university professors in the United States. This...

March 10, 2012

Why Do We Go to Church?

Our own Richard Flory recently appeared on the illustrious Research on Religion podcast discussing why...

March 03, 2012

How Best to Help the World’s Poor?

What is the most cost-effective means of helping the World's poor? Economist Bruce Wydick surveyed...

March 01, 2012

Christianity and Attributions

I’m just finishing Martin Seligman’s fascinating book Learned Optimism. Seligman, a psychologist at Penn, makes...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Religious Affiliation in the United States by State (Interactive Map)

One of the joys of studying religion is how much high-quality data are available. For...

February 16, 2012

A World without Grace? This is What It Would Look Like

What would it look like if the world ran without any grace given to others?...

February 12, 2012

Just How Overweight are Americans?

Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, has made it his mission to help his congregation...

February 09, 2012

John Frum and Jesus

February 15th will be John Frum day, a high holiday in one of the South Pacific's...

February 05, 2012

Finding God Through Evolution

Did you know that two people independently arrived at the basic assumptions of evolution? Charles...

February 02, 2012

A Humorous, Insightful Taxonomy of Sin

We've heard of the seven deadly sins, of course, but if we look at all...

January 2012

January 28, 2012

If People Leave the Faith, When Do They Do It?

I have recently undertaken a study of Christian deconversion--why do people leave Christianity. In reading...

January 26, 2012

How Many Americans are Atheists? Fewer than You Might Think.

There is confusion in popular discussion about how many Americans are atheists. Here I review...

January 19, 2012

A Problem with Today’s Widespread Celebrity Culture

A defining feature of life today is we have a lot of celebrities. We live...

January 14, 2012

Where We Find the Most Bad Statistics

It's my impression that the greater the social significance of a topic, the more inaccurate...

January 12, 2012

My Faulty Moral Standards (Which I’d Like to Think are Better than Yours)

I’ve been thinking about personal standards lately, and one of the people I know with...

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