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November 2011

November 30, 2011
Did faith-based social service provision begin when George W. Bush started the office of Faith...
November 29, 2011
For various reasons, public discussion of religion tends to attract (and create) a lot of...
November 28, 2011
Yesterday was an unusual Sunday for American Catholics, and reinforces the distinctive nature of worship...
November 26, 2011
I really like maps, and several weeks ago I posted a figure that illustrates the...
November 25, 2011
New York is the largest city in the United States, so it should not be...
November 24, 2011
A guest post by Richard Flory Last week I spent a day at the annual...
November 23, 2011
With Thanksgiving tomorrow, I thought it best to re-post here a blog I wrote last...
November 22, 2011
Part 2 in a series on deconversion. In a study of religious deconversion, we analyzed...
November 21, 2011
My wife is a big fan of contemporary Christian music (CCM), and has listened to...
November 19, 2011
How does one's faith influence the intellectual vocation? In part, at least, by encouraging both...
November 18, 2011
So as you’ve probably figured out, I am fascinated by Asian Americans and their religions....
November 17, 2011
Part 1 in a series on deconversion. Several colleagues and I recently finished a study...
November 16, 2011
Do women have to act like men when they enter the professions? The person who...
November 15, 2011
It's no surprise to think that the Catholic sex abuse scandal has resulted in people...
November 14, 2011
Watching the Penn State fiasco shake out last week awoke to my consciousness something that...
November 12, 2011
100 Huntley Street is one of Canada's top religious programs, and here's an interview that...
November 11, 2011
In a previous post I shared the current prevalence of Christianity among Asian Americans. Based on...
November 10, 2011
In recent weeks, I have written about my discomfort with people aligning religion with a...
November 09, 2011
Yesterday, I discussed with my class Robert Bellah's famous 1967 essay entitled "Civil Religion in...
November 08, 2011
I've been thinking about the differences between classroom teaching and pulpit preaching. When I teach,...
November 07, 2011
My research team and I are waist-deep in interviews of twenty-somethings for my next book...
November 06, 2011
Last weekend at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, I...
November 05, 2011
On Thursday, I referenced the dramatic decline in Mainline Protestantism over the past century.  Here's...
November 04, 2011
While attending college, I occasionally participated in a largely Korean evangelical Protestant campus group that...
November 03, 2011
In the 1990s, a seismic shift occurred in religious America. During that period, the percentage...
November 02, 2011
As a graduate student, I remember reading Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Faith and...
November 01, 2011
I'm a sucker for maps, and this is one of my favorites.  It charts the...
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