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March 2012

March 30, 2012

Trayvon Martin and the implicit prejudice of faith

By now many readers of this blog are probably at least slightly aware of the...

March 29, 2012

Religion and Class: From Harvard to the Quick Stop

by John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University Conservatives have long extolled the virtues of the American...

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 27, 2012

Religion in the News: What Does it All Mean?

by Richard Flory Several news stories about religion in the U.S. have caught my attention...

March 26, 2012

What Paintball Taught Me about the Market in Relationships

My 12-year-old son and I play paintball about once every three or four months. (If...

March 23, 2012

Coming apart, coming together, coming…?

By Julie J. Park I’ve been meaning to write an entry on Charles Murray’s book Coming...

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 21, 2012

Are Religious Organizations Like Firms?

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

March 20, 2012

Gendered Assumptions and Weak Ties

by Amy Reynolds This past Saturday, Barbara Mikulski from Maryland became the longest-serving female congressperson...

March 19, 2012

Reds and Blues on Cohabitation and Marriage

(Last on a theme from Premarital Sex in America…) Blues are pragmatic about sex and...

March 16, 2012

Faith and the Duty Work of Fathering

When I teach sociology I usually think about daily life examples to stress the value...

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 13, 2012

Kony 2012 Tells Us What We Care About

By Gerardo Marti An email showed up last week in my inbox with a brief...

March 12, 2012

Blue Sex: How it’s Different from Red Sex

(Another clip from Premarital Sex in America...) Jeff is a freshman at a state university...

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 09, 2012

Small Enough to Hate: Anti-Muslim American Behavior

I teach at a faith-based university, one that identifies itself as particularly Baptist and broadly...

March 08, 2012

Dear China: Why Censor? Why Suppress Religion?

by Becky Hsu A new book written by a former CNN journalist in Beijing, Consent of...

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,...

March 06, 2012

Burning of the Quran

by Amy Reynolds On February 20th, burned copies of the Quran were discovered at the...

March 05, 2012

Red Sex

(This is an excerpt from my 2011 book Premarital Sex in America...) Martin was a...

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 02, 2012

Do Secular Colleges Destroy Young Christians’ Faith?

I recently received an e-mail asking about the impact of secular vs. Christian colleges on...

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 28, 2012

Demographic Change: Casualties or Opportunities?

By Richard Flory At the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, we’ve been talking...

February 27, 2012

Nonmonogamy? Not yet.

“Nonmonogamy” is a gentle mouthful of a word, a polite replacement of sorts for “promiscuity”...

February 24, 2012

Institutional Drift of the Working Class

Has something happened to our working class? While much of my research has focused on...

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 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 21, 2012

James Naismith Meet Jeremy Lin

by John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University (Earlier this week, Jerry Park explored the fascinating role of...

February 20, 2012

Contraception, Cheap Sex, and the Nonmarital Birth Rate

Every once in a while something in the New York Times will bring a smile...

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