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March 2012

March 30, 2012
By now many readers of this blog are probably at least slightly aware of the...
March 29, 2012
by John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University Conservatives have long extolled the virtues of the American...
March 28, 2012
In academia, in general, and sociology, in particular, we constantly hear derogatory, prejudicial statements about...
March 27, 2012
by Richard Flory Several news stories about religion in the U.S. have caught my attention...
March 26, 2012
My 12-year-old son and I play paintball about once every three or four months. (If...
March 23, 2012
By Julie J. Park I’ve been meaning to write an entry on Charles Murray’s book Coming...
March 22, 2012
Several years, ABC's newshow, 20/20, ran a story about a Southern California pastor, K.C. Price, and...
March 21, 2012
Can ideas from economics, such as that monopolies are lazy and that competition leads to...
March 20, 2012
by Amy Reynolds This past Saturday, Barbara Mikulski from Maryland became the longest-serving female congressperson...
March 19, 2012
(Last on a theme from Premarital Sex in America…) Blues are pragmatic about sex and...
March 16, 2012
When I teach sociology I usually think about daily life examples to stress the value...
March 15, 2012
Here are some rather disturbing data from a study university professors in the United States. This...
March 13, 2012
By Gerardo Marti An email showed up last week in my inbox with a brief...
March 12, 2012
(Another clip from Premarital Sex in America...) Jeff is a freshman at a state university...
March 10, 2012
Our own Richard Flory recently appeared on the illustrious Research on Religion podcast discussing why...
March 09, 2012
I teach at a faith-based university, one that identifies itself as particularly Baptist and broadly...
March 08, 2012
by Becky Hsu A new book written by a former CNN journalist in Beijing, Consent of...
March 07, 2012
A public event on March 1, 2012, hosted by Georgetown University's Berkely Center for Religion,...
March 06, 2012
by Amy Reynolds On February 20th, burned copies of the Quran were discovered at the...
March 05, 2012
(This is an excerpt from my 2011 book Premarital Sex in America...) Martin was a...
March 03, 2012
What is the most cost-effective means of helping the World's poor? Economist Bruce Wydick surveyed...
March 02, 2012
I recently received an e-mail asking about the impact of secular vs. Christian colleges on...
March 01, 2012
I’m just finishing Martin Seligman’s fascinating book Learned Optimism. Seligman, a psychologist at Penn, makes...

February 2012

February 28, 2012
By Richard Flory At the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, we’ve been talking...
February 27, 2012
“Nonmonogamy” is a gentle mouthful of a word, a polite replacement of sorts for “promiscuity”...
February 24, 2012
Has something happened to our working class? While much of my research has focused on...
February 23, 2012
One of the joys of studying religion is how much high-quality data are available. For...
February 22, 2012
What does Lent, which starts today, have to do with a topic I'm very interested...
February 21, 2012
by John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University (Earlier this week, Jerry Park explored the fascinating role of...
February 20, 2012
Every once in a while something in the New York Times will bring a smile...
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