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2012-01-21T12:43:34-05:00

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Do Sociology and Christianity Mix?

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 12:43 pm By Bradley Wright

(Part 1 in a series of 4) By George Yancey I describe myself as “Just a Christian black sociologist trying to make his way in the world.” Well the black part is pretty clear but one might wonder about the Christian sociologist part. I mean can a person be a sociologist and a Christian at the same time? If not then am I just an walking living contradiction. Is my existence just a joke on rationality? Whoa. That is too... Read more

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2012-02-26T12:24:03-05:00

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

Last updated on: February 26, 2012 at 12:24 pm By Margarita A. Mooney

A Professor in Princeton University’s Religion department, Eric Gregory, once told me that many students in his Christian Ethics class know that Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader but do not know he was religious leader. Forgetting the religious roots of Reverend Martin Luther King’s legacy represents an at best impoverishment of knowledge, or perhaps as suggested in this article by Justin Dyer and Kevin Stewart on Public Discourse, an attempt to present in exclusively secular terms what... Read more

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2012-01-21T12:47:07-05:00

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What’s so bad about (the word) religion?

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 12:47 pm By Mark Regnerus

I’ve only been blogging for a few short months, and I’ve already reached a new low—responding directly to a YouTube video. What has the world come to? The video I’m referring to is the “Why I Hate Religion—But Love Jesus” clip that, as of Sunday evening, had already picked up 11.7 million viewers in a short amount of time. Since I’m a sociologist of religion, at times, I have something invested in the continued use of the term “religion.” It... Read more

2012-01-14T08:00:19-05:00

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Where We Find the Most Bad Statistics

Last updated on: January 14, 2012 at 8:00 am By Bradley Wright

It’s my impression that the greater the social significance of a topic, the more inaccurate statistics will be created for and used about it. Why? 1) The more significant a topic, the more people will measure it, so there will be more statistics about it anyway. 2) The greater the significance, the more people will have incentive to either create or use misleading statistics that best represent their perspective. Graphically: Read more

Brad Wright

2012-01-21T12:46:22-05:00

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Oprah, Osteen, Gaga, or Beck? Whose Celebrity Faith Do You Relate To?

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 12:46 pm By Jerry Park

Near the end of 2011, I had heard rumors that media celebrity Oprah Winfrey was visiting the Osteen family who lead the largest church in the United States: Lakewood. Lakewood is near downtown Houston and more than 40,000 attend the worship service each Sunday which is broadcast in over 100 countries to millions. This is the megachurch of megachurches in the US (still fairly small compared to Yoido and other super-ultra-mega-churches around the world. So it makes sense that Oprah,... Read more

2012-01-21T12:45:35-05:00

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

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 12:45 pm By Bradley Wright

I’ve been thinking about personal standards lately, and one of the people I know with the highest standards about anything is UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma. Here’s a story to illustrate. A couple weeks ago the team was playing West Virginia—a physically tough Big East opponent, and UConn was up by a comfortable margin. West Virginia’s center got the ball in the low post, and UConn’s center, Stefanie Dolson reached around and batted away from her, to one of... Read more

Brad Wright

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2012-01-21T12:45:02-05:00

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God and Suffering: Remembering the Haitian Earthquake of January 2010

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 12:45 pm By Margarita A. Mooney

January 10, 2012, marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Having spent much time in Haiti and among Haitian migrants, the tragedy struck me in the heart. Tears rolled down my face when I heard the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince had been killed in the collapsed cathedral. One of the major themes of my Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora was about Haitians’ resilient faith. In my initial reaction to the tragedy, I... Read more

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2012-01-10T16:22:42-05:00

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Why I’d Rather Do Research than Publish

Last updated on: January 10, 2012 at 4:22 pm By Bradley Wright

For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers–right before a submission (or resubmission) to a journal. From a rational perspective, this makes no sense in that a little extra work will get the manuscript to a journal where it might be published. In thinking about why I have this tendency, I realized that what I enjoy about sociological research happens *before* submission to a journal–formulating the ideas, analyzing the data, and putting together... Read more

Brad Wright

2012-01-11T08:35:34-05:00

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When it comes to Death, we’re the Biggest Liars

Last updated on: January 11, 2012 at 8:35 am By Mark Regnerus

I’ve always been the kind of person who reads the obituaries in the local newspaper. I don’t believe I have an unhealthy curiosity about death. I just think it registers and I pay attention to it. It could be that being a PK provided me with elevated exposure to the reality of death. And I lived for 12 years about 50 feet from a cemetery, next to the country church in Iowa that my father served from 1972-1984. It didn’t... Read more

2012-01-07T14:37:15-05:00

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The distribution of mega-churches in the US (map)

Last updated on: January 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm By Bradley Wright

Here’s an interesting map of where mega-churches are located in the U.S. There are 1,300 churches with at least 2,000 in weekly attendance. Compare this map with a US population map… I was struck by how similar the maps look. I would have expected more regional differences. Read more

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