We are living in a moment of intense anxiety about the fate of democracy around the world. Democratic institutions are…
Ruth Braunstein
Ruth Braunstein is associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. During 2019-2020, Ruth is the recipient of a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion, and a Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) Public Fellow. Her research on the role of religion and culture in American political life has been published in the American Sociological Review, Contexts, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Qualitative Sociology, among other outlets. She is the author of Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide (University of California Press, 2017), based on a comparative ethnographic study of progressive faith-based community organizing and Tea Party activism, and coeditor of Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics (NYU Press, 2017). She has previously served on TIF Editorial Board and as Editor-at-Large and Managing Editor of The Immanent Frame, and has consulted with the SSRC’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere.
Making budgets moral again
The release of the Poor People’s Moral Budget calls forth decades of efforts to reframe the budget as a moral…
Political myopia and prophetic vision
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones (GoT), for example, is billed as epic fantasy, but at its heart it…
Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
A conversation with Robert Bellah
Margarita A. Mooney interviews Robert Bellah at Patheos.
Interdisciplinary Congregational Studies Fellowships
An interdisciplinary call for applications for Congregational Studies Fellowships has been released.
When God Talks Back named a Notable Book of 2012
New Directions in the Study of Prayer Grantee Tanya Luhrmann’s book, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship…
Religion and the election
Several months ago, it seemed religion might be a notable factor in the 2012 presidential election.