Posts Tagged ‘ religiosity ’

Read David Campbell interview with Time and Seasons

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Talke Photography

Calling American Grace a “page turner” and the “most comprehensive and significant sociological examination of religion in America to be published in decades, and perhaps ever”, Time and Seasons interviewed American Grace co-author David…

Read more »

Ross Douthat’s NY Times Op-Ed: “A Tough Season for Believers”

December 20, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt from Ross Douthat’s NYT Op-Ed:

Happily, for those who need a last-minute gift for the anxious Christian in their life, the year just past featured two thick, impressive books that wrestle with exactly these complexities. [The complexities…

Read more »

Washington Post review of American Grace

December 13, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Rachel Ford James

Excerpt of Washington Post review of American Grace:

Even as a religion reporter, I was surprised by some of the findings in this hefty new book about American religion by political scientists …

Read more »

WSJ: Putnam and Campbell on “Charity’s Religious Edge”

December 10, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Marcio Cabral De Moura

American Grace co-authors Robert Putnam and David Campbell have an Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal.  Here is an excerpt:

Along with jobs and 401(k)s, a major casualty of the Great Recession …

Read more »

Will the real non-religious please stand up?

December 2, 2010
By tomsander

Saguaro research team members Chaeyoon Lim, Carol Ann MacGregor, and Robert D. Putnam have an academic article out in the new issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion called…

Read more »

The demographic storm afoot in the U.S. Catholic church

October 21, 2010
By tomsander

Rosary bead close-up photo by Niharb

The National Catholic Reporter has an interesting story citing alarming trends among Catholics; they call their story “The ‘had-it’ Catholics.” Excerpt:

Those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the church by…

Read more »