Do pollsters invent religion?
Do pollsters create what they purport to study? Wuthnow examines the power and limits of polls and surveys on American religion.
Paging God, by Wendy Cadge
Wendy Cadge asks, What happens to religion when hospitals, many of them founded by religious groups, are secularized or otherwise constrained to serve patients beyond their founding communities?
Diverse and devout
The U.S. would seem to be prime ground for deep and chronic social conflict. Yet the evidence indicates that Americans get along fairly well in spite of having many different religions, including the growing number who subscribe to "no religion."
Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
That religion is especially salient for new immigrants is a commonplace in the sociology and history of U...
Choosing to be different
In their 2001 book Divided By Faith, Michael Emerson and Christian Smith developed a theory to explain ...
Multiethnic mix
The key to building a congregation of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds is to appeal to them in ways that trump their differences.
Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity and Community
While “gay Christian” is an oxymoron to some conservative Protestants, it is an equally bewildering term to many rad...
Burden of choice
Barry Schwartz’s book became a page-turner for me when he began discussing a survey of preferences in medical care....
Radical middle
Suppose I told you that for just two cents on the national dollar we could have a ...