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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...
February 19, 2012
How Do You Define Happiness?
By Becky Hsu This past week, while people were celebrating (or not celebrating) Valentine’s Day,...
February 17, 2012
Harvard, Hoops, Hope, and Hype: America’s Lin-fatuation
My Facebook newsfeed is suffering from Linsomnia. Discovering a new celebrity like Jeremy Lin for...
February 16, 2012
A World without Grace? This is What It Would Look Like
What would it look like if the world ran without any grace given to others?...
February 15, 2012
Want to Fight the Man? Reform is Hard Work
In his recent column responding to the You Tube hit video, “Why I Hate Religion, but...
February 14, 2012
Valentine’s Day and Social Exchange Theory
By Jeremy Rhodes If you watched the commercials during the Super Bowl a couple of...
February 13, 2012
If rescue dogs are the only legitimate dogs today, are rescue humans next?
Apparently we now own a rescue dog, a term I was entirely unfamiliar with a...
February 12, 2012
Just How Overweight are Americans?
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, has made it his mission to help his congregation...
February 11, 2012
Can Sociology and Christianity Mix? Part 4
By George Yancey (Part 4 in a series. Part 1, 2, and 3) If we...
February 10, 2012
The End of Expressing Faith in Public Spaces?
As a young college student, one of the appeals of participating in an evangelical group...
February 09, 2012
John Frum and Jesus
February 15th will be John Frum day, a high holiday in one of the South Pacific's...
February 07, 2012
Mr. Baltzell’s Neighborhood: The Rise of Word “Mainline” and the Decline of Mainline Denominations
By John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University Since last September, Sojourners has explored the meaning of...
February 06, 2012
Whatever happened to military sociology?
There’s a graduate student I know who has a significant interest in what’s called military...
February 05, 2012
Finding God Through Evolution
Did you know that two people independently arrived at the basic assumptions of evolution? Charles...
February 04, 2012
The Superbowl as an American Holiday
By Jeremy Rhodes The most American of holidays is upon us once again. No, I’m...
February 03, 2012
The Real Taboo: Forget Sex, Let’s Talk About Money (and How Much We’re not Giving)
As the 2012 campaigns are under way, we sociologists are paying close attention to the...
February 02, 2012
A Humorous, Insightful Taxonomy of Sin
We've heard of the seven deadly sins, of course, but if we look at all...
February 01, 2012
Christian-Muslim Dialogue: My Conversation with Islamic Scholar Mohsen Kadivar
Although he is known by many as a political dissident, Islamic scholar Mohsen Kadivar emphasized to...
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