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January 2012

January 18, 2012

Do Sociology and Christianity Mix?

(Part 1 in a series of 4) By George Yancey I describe myself as "Just...

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 16, 2012

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

I’ve only been blogging for a few short months, and I’ve already reached a new...

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 13, 2012

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

Near the end of 2011, I had heard rumors that media celebrity Oprah Winfrey was...

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...

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 10, 2012

Why I’d Rather Do Research than Publish

For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers--right...

January 09, 2012

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

I’ve always been the kind of person who reads the obituaries in the local newspaper....

January 07, 2012

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

Here's an interesting map of where mega-churches are located in the U.S. There are 1,300...

January 06, 2012

The Top 11 from ’11: Religion Research Studies in Sociology

The new year is always a time for lists, all kinds of lists. So I...

January 05, 2012

Bowling alone… by preference

One of my favorite jokes goes like this: Two economists are looking at a fancy...

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...

January 03, 2012

Two Trends Worth Watching in 2012

The modal image of Christianity in America is face-to-face meetings predominately attended by families. These...

January 02, 2012

This is not my father’s world

I’m not sure if it’s age or what, but I’ve been thinking more frequently about...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

Which Churches are Growing? FACTS on Growth 2010

Faith Communities Today, a program out of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, has recently...

December 30, 2011

Asian American Religion and Depression, Killing the Hope of Our Youth?

In the Christmas season when lots of joy and cheer abound, we know that...

December 29, 2011

Emotions in Church

I would like to pose some questions about emotions in church. What should be the...

December 28, 2011

A Social Network Map of the New Testament

It's either really cool or social statistics run amok (or both), but here is a...

December 27, 2011

Christianity Worldwide, then (1910) and now (map)

Okay, this maybe the coolest map I've seen of the spread of Christianity worldwide. From...

December 26, 2011

Love your enemies. Sit next to them.

I saw this bit of news last week and, of course, didn’t like it too much....

December 23, 2011

Finding Christmas Culture in Asia and Asian America

In Texas, Christmas time is tamales time. The grocery stores have this festive and somewhat...

December 22, 2011

The Worldwide Reach of Christianity: Pew Center Report

Over the past several years, the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life has become...

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 20, 2011

Sociological rules of Christmas gift giving

Sociologists will an analyze anything people do, no matter how taken-for-granted the activity. ( I...

December 19, 2011

On Hitchens, Apologetics, and the Strangeness of Christianity

So Christopher Hitchens is dead. Waste no time speculating about his end, or what happened...

December 17, 2011

Christianity and Islam throughout the World (map)

Here's one of my favorite maps. It shows the percentage of Christianity and Islam in...

December 16, 2011

Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists. QRS #2

Here's a provocative study, conducted by psychologists, that concludes that Americans distrust atheists as much...

December 15, 2011

Those Protestant Muslims Next Door

In a previous post I talked some about the non-Christian religious diversity among Asian Americans,...

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...

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