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May 2012

May 11, 2012

Teaching Sociology of Religion Online

Part 1 in a Series on Teaching Sociology of Religion Online. Next week, I start...

May 02, 2012

“The 21st Century Will be a Century of Ethics or It Will Not Be”

In a recent post on Black, White and Gray, Wheaton sociology professor Amy Reynolds asked...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

Communism and Christianity through the Eyes of a Cuban Catholic

Part 4 in a series. Click here for my podcast interview on Pope Benedict XVI's...

April 18, 2012

A New Age for the Catholic Church in Cuba? From Survival to Planting Seeds

Part 3 in a series. Click here for my podcast interview on Pope Benedict XVI's visit...

April 04, 2012

Testimony from Cuba: The Pope’s Visit was an Oasis

Part 2 in a series. Click here for my podcast interview on Pope Benedict XVI's visit...

April 01, 2012

Pope Benedict in Cuba: There is No Fatherland Without Virtue

Part 1 in a series. Click here for my podcast interview on Pope Benedict XVI's visit...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

Are Religious Organizations Like Firms?

Can ideas from economics, such as that monopolies are lazy and that competition leads to...

March 07, 2012

Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right

A public event on March 1, 2012, hosted by Georgetown University's Berkely Center for Religion,...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

What does Lent tell us about Markets and Morals?

What does Lent, which starts today, have to do with a topic I'm very interested...

February 15, 2012

Want to Fight the Man? Reform is Hard Work

In his recent column responding to the You Tube hit video, “Why I Hate Religion, but...

February 01, 2012

Christian-Muslim Dialogue: My Conversation with Islamic Scholar Mohsen Kadivar

Although he is known by many as a political dissident, Islamic scholar Mohsen Kadivar emphasized to...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

Religious Freedom: An Endangered Liberty in the U.S.?

In December, Georgetown scholars Tom Farr and Tim Shah organized an online debate through the...

January 17, 2012

The Black Church in America: Martin Luther King’s Legacy, The Social Gospel and the Prosperity Gospel

A Professor in Princeton University's Religion department, Eric Gregory, once told me that many students...

January 11, 2012

God and Suffering: Remembering the Haitian Earthquake of January 2010

January 10, 2012, marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Having spent...

January 04, 2012

Religion and Depression: Too Soon to Conclude about Asian-Americans

I read with great interest my colleague Jerry Park's recent blog about Asian-American religion and...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

Leisure and Worship: A Christmas Message

For much of my adult life, leisure has been something of a bad word. Isn't...

December 14, 2011

Why I Love Teaching Sociology of Religion

Today after my students in Sociology of Religion took their final exam, I headed to...

December 07, 2011

Dead Man Walking: An Evening with Sr. Helen Prejean in Durham

At the end of her talk to a packed house at Trinity United Methodist Church...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Faith-Based Social Services: An Essential Part of American Civil Society

Did faith-based social service provision begin when George W. Bush started the office of Faith...

November 23, 2011

Haitian Catholics and Gratitude

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, I thought it best to re-post here a blog I wrote last...

November 19, 2011

Intellectuals Need to Question Conventional Categories

How does one's faith influence the intellectual vocation? In part, at least, by encouraging both...

November 16, 2011

Women’s Dignity in the Workplace

Do women have to act like men when they enter the professions? The person who...

November 09, 2011

Civil Religion in America Then and Now

Yesterday, I discussed with my class Robert Bellah's famous 1967 essay entitled "Civil Religion in...

November 06, 2011

Best Selling Books in Sociology of Religion, SSSR 2011

Last weekend at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, I...

November 02, 2011

Moving Forward the Science & Religion Debate

As a graduate student, I remember reading Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Faith and...

October 2011

October 30, 2011

Heard in the Hallways at SSSR

I just returned from the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of...

October 26, 2011

The Media and Research on Religion

Well, it looks like there is a ranking for everything. A USA today report recently...

October 19, 2011

What Do We Pray For?

Recently I was talking with a colleague about how to interpret a survey item on...

October 12, 2011

Who is a Convert?

Writing in the Wall Street Journal opinion page on September 16, 2011, Religion News Service...

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