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January 2012

January 18, 2012
(Part 1 in a series of 4) By George Yancey I describe myself as "Just...
January 17, 2012
A Professor in Princeton University's Religion department, Eric Gregory, once told me that many students...
January 16, 2012
I’ve only been blogging for a few short months, and I’ve already reached a new...
January 14, 2012
It's my impression that the greater the social significance of a topic, the more inaccurate...
January 13, 2012
Near the end of 2011, I had heard rumors that media celebrity Oprah Winfrey was...
January 12, 2012
I’ve been thinking about personal standards lately, and one of the people I know with...
January 11, 2012
January 10, 2012, marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Having spent...
January 10, 2012
For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers--right...
January 09, 2012
I’ve always been the kind of person who reads the obituaries in the local newspaper....
January 07, 2012
Here's an interesting map of where mega-churches are located in the U.S. There are 1,300...
January 06, 2012
The new year is always a time for lists, all kinds of lists. So I...
January 05, 2012
One of my favorite jokes goes like this: Two economists are looking at a fancy...
January 04, 2012
I read with great interest my colleague Jerry Park's recent blog about Asian-American religion and...
January 03, 2012
The modal image of Christianity in America is face-to-face meetings predominately attended by families. These...
January 02, 2012
I’m not sure if it’s age or what, but I’ve been thinking more frequently about...

December 2011

December 31, 2011
Faith Communities Today, a program out of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, has recently...
December 30, 2011
     In the Christmas season when lots of joy and cheer abound, we know that...
December 29, 2011
I would like to pose some questions about emotions in church. What should be the...
December 28, 2011
It's either really cool or social statistics run amok (or both), but here is a...
December 27, 2011
Okay, this maybe the coolest map I've seen of the spread of Christianity worldwide.  From...
December 26, 2011
I saw this bit of news last week and, of course, didn’t like it too much....
December 23, 2011
In Texas, Christmas time is tamales time. The grocery stores have this festive and somewhat...
December 22, 2011
Over the past several years, the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life has become...
December 21, 2011
For much of my adult life, leisure has been something of a bad word. Isn't...
December 20, 2011
Sociologists will an analyze anything people do, no matter how taken-for-granted the activity. ( I...
December 19, 2011
So Christopher Hitchens is dead. Waste no time speculating about his end, or what happened...
December 17, 2011
Here's one of my favorite maps.  It shows the percentage of Christianity and Islam in...
December 16, 2011
Here's a provocative study, conducted by psychologists, that concludes that Americans distrust atheists as much...
December 15, 2011
In a previous post I talked some about the non-Christian religious diversity among Asian Americans,...
December 14, 2011
Today after my students in Sociology of Religion took their final exam, I headed to...
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