...Or, is it more superficial (which is not to say unimportant or not deeply felt) social change? Do electoral politics and other shifting forms of activism amount to fundamental change,...
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Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Divine pervasion and the change that isn’t
by Pamela Klassen...to make such change happen, they need to surround themselves with the right goods and services. To best participate in the “rituals of reading” prescribed by her Book Club, for...
April 28, 2011
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CFP: Irreligion, Secularism and Social Change
by Taline Cox...interact with social change? This panel was born out of the belief that it is also important to investigate the relationship between social change and “the secular.” Paper topics may...
February 7, 2012
The politics of spirituality
Shifting drivers of change
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...trend began before the 1990s, perhaps between 1985 and 1987, and thus the rate of change may not have been as rapid as previous estimates indicated. Or, if we turn...
December 21, 2009
Sociology of religion
Not much has changed—and should it?
by John H. Evans...whether we want to change what is, by all appearances, a relatively stable field. The Strong Program One particular change that I would advocate is the continued cultivation of the...
March 11, 2010
Islam and the Secular State
The challenge of creating change
by John L. Esposito...between tradition and change. The conservative or traditionalist bent of many religious scholars, madrasas and Muslim populations make this requirement even more necessary. The importance of the framing narrative and...
August 25, 2008
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Why do Americans change their faith?
by Nicole GreenfieldMichael Paulson comments on Faith in Flux: Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S., a new Pew Forum study that explores the reasons why Americans change affiliations: Among the most...
April 29, 2009
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Tracking religious change
by Nicole Greenfield...global religious trends”: “Religious change around the world is a complex phenomenon,” the report begins, in an almost comic understatement. “No simple description such as secularization, religious revival, or believing...
October 26, 2009
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Call for Applications | International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, UCSB
by The EditorsThe recently established International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will fund dissertation fellows and postdoctoral scholars for the academic year 2017-2018....
May 22, 2017
A cognitive revolution?
Mind sciences and religious change in America
by Christopher WhiteLike others in this discussion, I’m not sure that recent neurological studies will dramatically change contemporary religious belief or practice, though my reasons are more historical than philosophical or psychological....
September 20, 2008