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May 2012

May 14, 2012

Good News and Bad News in Marriage and Divorce Statistics

The subject of marriage is on many minds lately, not the least of which are...

May 11, 2012

Teaching Sociology of Religion Online

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

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 09, 2012

Behind the Numbers: Asian Americans and Social Institutions

As part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Census provides a fact sheet of...

May 07, 2012

Wolves in Gaudy Sheepskin Clothing

“Fleecing the faithful,” it’s called. The sort of story featured on the front cover of...

May 04, 2012

Hard Work + Structural Advantages: 20+ Years of Korean Immigrant Businesses

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month everyone! May is a tough month to reflect on...

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...

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...

May 01, 2012

Is There an Academic Bias against Religion? Appears so, at Least against Conservative Christians.

By George Yancey The question of academic bias has been one many people have argued...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

I am “in a relationship”

Culture is, among other things, the power of legitimate naming. Or so says James Hunter,...

April 27, 2012

Sa-I-Gu: the Los Angeles Riots 20 Years Later

Some Koreans, especially those who are culturally engaged and fluent in the language know the...

April 25, 2012

Green is Go(o)d

Let’s start with an admission: I’m a fan of new urbanism. And old urbanism, for...

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 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 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 20, 2012

Race, Culture and Character: Seeing Jesus

Recently painter Thomas Kinkade, “painter of light” passed away at the early age of 54....

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 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 17, 2012

Blacks, Gospel Music, and the Pursuit of Diversity in the American Church

By Gerardo Marti In conducting interviews for my book Worship across the Racial Divide, I...

April 16, 2012

More fun with statistics

Back by popular demand—and because frankly some weeks (months?) it is just plain challenging to...

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 11, 2012

Between Exclusivism and Relativism

By Nicolette D. Manglos While reading Peggy Levitt’s 2009 book on religion and immigration, God Needs...

April 10, 2012

What Makes a Development Expert?

by Amy Reynolds With discussions currently underway, the World Bank is expected to name a...

April 09, 2012

12 Curious Statistics about Today’s Young Adults

I hope to blog next week, or sometime thereafter, on the subject of affordable housing....

April 06, 2012

Time to be present

In the rush of the spring semester some professors (ok maybe it’s just me) reach...

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...

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 03, 2012

Blue Like Jazz: The Anti-Christianity Christian Film

by Gerardo Marti The film Blue Like Jazz premieres nationwide next week on April 13th,...

April 02, 2012

In the era of Facebook, just what are congregations for?

What are congregations for? It’s a simple question at face value, but I think the...

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...

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