Sociology of Religion has just published a study by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons on US professors' belief in God.…
College Professors not as non-religious as one would think
religion in the U.S.
The rise of the seculars
Kosmin and Keysar and others are already analyzing who has given up worship, belief, and other modes of religiosity. I…
Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”
Muriel Kane at The Raw Story reports on a Gallup poll released on Christmas Eve with some new numbers about…
An untapped constituency
In his 2008 documentary (some might prefer to call it a mockumentary) Religulous, comedian and satirist Bill Maher wonders aloud…
Shifting drivers of change
Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a “common-sense” epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today’s…
Why do we want to know?
"Evangelicals"---getting a handle on the concept requires asking why we want to know.
A religious war?
Today at The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan writes: 9/11 was a call, in my mind, to defend the Enlightenment from…
The measurement of evangelicals
Despite the fact that there is considerable journalistic and scholarly discussion today concerning the role of evangelicals in American public…
Who’s afraid of sociology?
Attempts to define "evangelical" often hover between theological definitions from those who self-identify as evangelicals and so-called sociological definitions from…
The evangelical complexion
Just who are America's evangelicals? Conventional wisdom says that evangelical Protestantism is a white-bread, white people's religion. The movement's leading…