Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her work explores how people…
New Directions in the Study of Prayer
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…
Understanding “nones”
In a new article for Religion Dispatches, Elizabeth Drescher, responds to a piece by Katherine Stewart and attempts to clarify…
Peter Manseau on religion as America’s “first freedom”
New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Peter Manseau observes that both the Obama and Romney campaigns describe religious…
Elizabeth Drescher on religious “nones”
NDSP Grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to a new report, “‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in…
NDSP grantees announced
New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP), project and grants program of the SSRC, has selected twenty-eight grantees to…
AIDS and LGBT equality
In honor of the International AIDS Conference that will take place in Washington, D.C. later this month, Diane Winston, a…
The Psychology of Prayer
The Psychology of Prayer: A Scientific Approach, co-authored by Bernard Spilka and Kevin Ladd, a member of the SSRC's New Directions…
NDSP: December 1 deadline for Letters of Intent
The deadline for submitting Letters of Intent to New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP), a new project and…