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Bibliographic Resources
One Woman’s Partial and Idiosyncratic Guide to Recent Literature in Sociology of Religion
Prepared by Nancy T. Ammerman, November, 2001
Searchable bibliographic database Sociology of Religion Bibliography by Anthony J. Blasi (Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Notre Dame) Professor of Sociology at Tennessee State University. Database resides on ARDA's website.
Ammerman, Nancy
Doing Good in American Communities: Congregations and Service Organizations Working Together
A research report written by Nancy T. Ammerman from the Organizing Religious Work project.
New life for denominationalism
Reprinted with permission from The Christian Century (2000).
Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream
Reprinted from LIVED RELIGION IN AMERICA (Buy it now) edited by David Hall (1997), published by Princeton University Press.
Organized Religion in a Voluntaristic Society
1996 Presidential Address in Sociology of Religion, 1997 (available online and in .pdf format)
Telling Congregational Stories
The 1993 H. Paul Douglass lecture, in Review of Religious Research
Waco, Federal Law Enforcement, and Scholars of Religion
Reprinted from ARMAGEDDON IN WACO (Buy it now) published by the University of Chicago, copyright© 1995 by The University of Chicago.
Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, September 3, 1993
Bartkowski, John
Religious Civility, Civil Society, and
Charitable Choice: Faith–Based Poverty
Relief in the Post–Welfare Era
with co-investigator Helen A. Regis
"Charitable Choice" and the Feasibility of Faith-Based Welfare Reform in Mississippi
with Helen A. Regis
Breaking Walls, Raising Fences: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Accountability Among the Promise Keepers
Becker, Penny Edgell
Congregations Adapting to Changes in Work and Family a paper prepared for the New England Religious Discussion Society, September, 1999
Work, Family, and Religious Involvement for Men and Women: "Family Values" or
the Modern Family? a paper contrasting the participation levels between men and women in religious environments, March 2000
Bellah, Robert home page for Robert Bellah
Cultural Identity and Modernization
A lecture at the Centennial Symposium, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University, 1983
Why do we need a Public Affairs Mission? The Moral Crisis in American Public Life
a lecture given at Southwest Missouri State University, October 17, 1995
The True Scholar
An article posted on the web site for the American Association of University Professors.
At Home and Not At Home: Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth
Finding the Church: Post Traditional Discipleship
Individualism and the Crisis of Civic Membership
Taming the Savage Market
with Christopher Adams
Strong Institutions, Good City
Benson, Peter
Belief Style, Congregation Climate and Program Quality
Written with Michael Donahue
Berger, Peter
Epistemological Modesty: An Interview with Peter Berger
Protestantism and the Quest for Certainty
Secularity: West and East
Reflections of an Ecclesiastical Expatriate
Beyer, Peter
Postmodernism and Religion
From Catholic Issues, an online journal.
Secularization from the Perspective of Globalization: A Response to Dobbelaere
Bibby, Reginald
Religion in the Canadian 1990's: The Paradox of Poverty and Potential
Bloch, John
The New and Improved Clint Eastwood: Change and Persistence in Promise Keepers Self-Help Literature
From Sociology of Religion, September 6, 2000
Bouma, Gary
Increasing Diversity in Religious Identification in Australia: Comparing 1947, 1991 and 1996 Census Reports
Brasher, Brenda
Women at the End of the World: Fundamentalist Millenarianism As An Engendering Machine
Engendering the Millenium, a special issue of the Journal of Millenial Studies
Co-edited series of articles with Lee Quinby (Journal of Millennial Studies Vol. 2, Issue 1, Summer, 1999)
The Cyborg: Technological Socialization and Its Link to the Religious Function of Popular Culture
Bromley, David
A Tale of Two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing Political Narratives
Bruce, Steve
Christianity in Britain, R. I. P.
Y2K, The Apocalypse, and Evangelical Christianity: The Role of Eschatological Belief in Church Responses
Campbell, George Van Pelt
Everything You Know is Wrong: How Globalization Undermines Moral Consensus
Carroll, Jackson W.
Toward 2000: Some Futures for Religious Leadership
The 1991 H. Paul Douglass lecture for the Religious Research Association.
Growth and Decline in Presbyterian Congregations
Written with Wayne L. Thompson and Dean R. Hoge
Chang, Patricia M.Y.
Enforcing Family Values? The Effects of Marital Status on Clergy Earnings
The Clergy Job Market: What are the opportunities for ministry in the 21st century?
Are Phone Polls Accurate? A research note about telephone polls in the media
Chaves, Mark
The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods and Selected Results
Financing American Religion
Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom 
A report by Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, as part of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Working Paper Series (2001)
Are We 'Bowling Alone' -- And Does it Matter?
Cieslak, Michael
Which Elements of Parish Life are Important to Women?
Presented at the annual RRA meeting, Oct. 2000. This paper is also available in a shorter version.
Capturing the Spirit of Catholic Parishes: A
Typology Based Upon Measures of Importance
Presented at the annual RRA meeting, Nov. 1999. This paper is also available in a shorter version as well as the Parishioner Survey used in this study.
Being Creative: Diverse Approaches to Estimating Catholics
Presented at the annual RRA meeting, Oct. 1995
Changing Pastors: Does It Lead to a Change in Financial Contributions?
Clark, Lynn Schofield
Exploring the Role of Media in Religious Identity-construction Among Teens
Cnaan, Ram
Philadelphia census of congregations and their involvement in social service delivery
Black church outreach: Comparing how black and other congregations serve their needy neighbors
Social and community involvement of religious congregations housed in historic religious properties: Findings from a six-city study
Coleman, John
The Bible and Sociology
Davis, Nancy
Theological Modernism, Cultural Libertarianism and Laissez-Faire Economics in Contemporary European Societies
Dawson, Lorne
Doing Religion in Cyberspace: The Promise and the Perils
Cyberspace and Religious Life: Conceptualizing the Concerns and the Consequences
Anti-Modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: Struggling with the Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements
Dobbelaere, Karel
Towards an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the Descriptive Concept of Secularization
Donahue, Michael
Belief Style, Congregation Climate and Program Quality
Written with Peter Benson
Duke, James T.
Latter-Day Saints in a Secular World: What We Have Learned About Latter-Day Saints From Social Research
From the Martin B. Hickman Outstanding Scholar Lecture, Brigham Young University, March 4, 1999
Dudley, Carl home page for Dr. Dudley
Welfare, Faith-Based Ministries, and Charitable Choice
Charitable Choice
An article written for Christian Century and reprinted with permission, March 14, 2001
Significant Research: When Information has Impact
The 1998 Presidential Lecture for the Religious Research Association.
From Typical Church to Social Ministry: A Study of the Elements Which Mobilize a Congregation
The 1989 H. Paul Douglass lecture presented at a meeting for the Religious Research Association.
Ebaugh, Helen Rose
Structural Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations
Eck, Diana L.
On Seeking and Finding in the World's Religions
Fagan, Patrick F.
Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability
Farnsley II, Arthur E.
Local Religious Ecology
An article that discusses urban ministries, focusing specifically on two urban neighborhoods.
Can Churches Save the City? A Look at Resources
Fath, Sébastien
An Example of Denominational Restructuration?
Finke, Roger
Accounting for the Uncounted: Computing Correctives for the 2000 RCMS Data written with Christopher Scheitle
The New Holy Clubs: Testing Church-to-Sect Propositions
Greil, Arthur
The Religious Response to Reproductive Technology
Greeley, Andrew
A compilation of articles is available within his web site.
Green, Norman
Growth and Decline in an Inclusive Denomination: The ABC Experience
Written with Paul Light
Greer, Bruce
Strategies for Evangelism and Growth in Three Denominations (1965-1990)
Griffith, R. Marie
The Promised Land of Weight Loss
Hadaway, C. Kirk
Did You Really Go To Church This Week? Behind the Poll Data
Church Growth in North America: The Character of a Religious Marketplace
Denominational Growth and Decline
Written with David Roozen
New Church Development and Denominational Growth (1950 - 1998): Symptom or Cause?
Written with Dave Roozen
The Growth and Decline of Congregations
Written with Dave Roozen
Do Church Growth Consultations Really Work?
Is Evangelistic Activity Related to Church Growth?
Individuals and Church Choice
Written with Dave Roozen
Hadden, Jeff
Religion and the Quest for Meaning and Order: Old Paradigms, New Realities From Sociological Focus vol. 28, Number 1, Feb. 1995.
Conceptualizing "Anti-Cult" and "Counter-Cult"
Why Do People Join New Religious Movements?
Social Science Models
The Anti-Cult Movement
Joining Religious Movements: The Brainwashing Model
A large collection of other works by Jeff Hadden
Hart, Stephen
The Cultural Dimension of Social Movements
Religion and Politics at Century's End
A preface to "What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think About Economic Justice"(Buy it now)
Hayes, Bernadette
Religious Independents Within Western Industrialized Nations: A Socio-Demographic Profile
Hexham, Irving and Powe-Hexham, Karla
Charismatics and Change in South Africa
Hoge, Dean
Growth and Decline in Presbyterian Congregations
Written with Wayne L. Thompson and Jackson Carroll
Hoover, Stewart M.
Religion, Media, and The Cultural Center of Gravity
Holsinger, Donald B.
The Dividends of Religious Freedom: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Religious Liberty on Forty Years of
Membership Growth for Three, Strict, Evangelizing Christian Religions
Huang, Jianbo
“Who Am I”: Identity Tensions among Chinese Intellectual Christians
Inskeep, Kenneth
A Short History of Church Growth Research
Johnson, Benton
Theology and the Position of Pastors on Social Issues: Continuity and Change Since the 1960's
The 1996 Religious Research Association Presidential Address
Johnson, D. Paul
The Gülen Hizmet Movement in Turkey: An Islamic Movement to Reduce Violence and Promote Tolerance through Education and Intercultural Dialogue
Johnson, Sister Mary
Baby Boomers and the Return to the Churches
Written with Wade Clark Roof
Kanagy, Conrad
Churched and Unchurched Black Americans
Written with Hart Nelsen
Kearns, Laurel
"The Context of Eco-theology," in Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology, ed. Gareth Jones. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004
"Saving The Creation: Christian Environmentalism in the United States," Sociology of Religion 57,1 (spring 1996):55-70
Kelly, James
Sociology and Public Theology: A Case Study of Pro-Choice/Profile Common Ground
Kopelowitz, Ezra and Israel, Yael
Why has a Sociology of Religion not developed in Israel? A look at the Influence of Socio-Political Environment on the Study of Religion
Krindatch, Alexey
The Orthodox (Eastern Christian) Churches in the USA at The Beginning of a New Millennium
Eastern Christianity in North American Religious Landscape: Ethnic Traditionalism Versus Civic Involvement and Social Transformations
Lawson, Ronald
From American Church to Immigrant Church: The Changing Face of Seventh-Day Adventism in Metropolitan New York
Levin, Jeff
From Psychosomatic to Theosomatic: The Role of Spirit in the Next New Paradigm
The ISSEEM Presidential Address
Light, Paul
Growth and Decline in an Inclusive Denomination: The ABC Experience
Written with Norman Green
Luidens, Donald
Cash and Character: Talking about Money in the Church
Lummis, Adair home page for Dr. Lummis
“Heart and Head” in Reaching Pastors of Black Churches A paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montreal, August 2006
Program and Policy Research Dynamics in Authority Contained and Dispersed Church Systems A paper presented at the SSSR-RRA Annual Meetings in Rochester, New York, November 2005
Numinous Experiences and Reflexive Spirituality in the Formation of Religious Capital Among Feminist Women Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion Philadelphia, August 2005.
What Do Lay People Want in Pastors? Answers from Lay Search Committee Chairs and Regional Judicatory Leaders from Pulpit & Pew, Research on Pastoral Leadership, Spring 2003
Brand Name Identity in a Post-Denominational Age: Regional Leaders’ Perspectives On Its Importance for Churches A paper delivered at The Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, Ohio, October, 2001.
The Art and Science of Subtle Proactivity: Regional Leaders and Their Congregations A paper being presented at the Religious Research Association Annual Meetings, Columbus, Ohio October 2001.
Summary of Major Findings on a 2003 Survey of the NCC Justice for Women Network
Results of a 2003 survey with analysis and summary by Dr. Lummis.
Reaching Toward Wholeness II: Highlights of the 21st Century Survey, The Participation of Women in the Episcopal Church Presented at the 2003 General Convention, Dr. Lummis provided research analysis for this survey
Men's Commitment to Religion: Perceptions of its Nature, Nurture, and Consequences A paper delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 2003.
Women Clergy Research and the Sociology of Religion
Written by Adair T. Lummis and Paula D. Nesbitt and printed in Sociology of Religion, January 30 2001. 
Women, men and styles of clergy leadership
A summary of the Clergy Women study by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Adair T. Lummis and Patricia M. Y. Chang
The Role of Judicatories in Interpreting Denominational Identity A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Religious Research Association Boston, 1999
Judicatory Niches and Negotiations A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion San Francisco, 1998.
Women of the Cloth: A New Opportunity for the Churches A 1983 out of print book about changes that cultural images are undergoing as increasing numbers of women enter the ordained ministry of several Protestant denominations
Marcum,John
Correlates of Belief in Reincarnation Among Christian Worshippers
Marler, Penny Long
Testing the attendance gap in a conservative church
From Church Tradition to Consumer Choice: The Gallup Surveys of the Unchurched American
Written with Dave Roozen
Martin, Wendy
Morality, Mystery, Meaning, and Memory: Decoding Audience Perceptions of Television and New Religiosity
Mason, Michael
Methods for exploring primordial elements of youth spirituality
Massignon, Bérengère
Regulation of religious diversity by the institutions of the European Union: from confrontation of national exceptions to the emergence of a European model
McConkey, Dale
Whither Hunter's Culture War? Shifts in Evangelical Morality, 1988-1998
McKinney, William
Religious Leadership, Religious Research and Religious Renewal
The 1997 H. Paul Douglass lecture for the Religious Research Association
Revisioning the Future of Oldline Protestantism
Miller, Donald E.
The Reinvented Church: Styles and Strategies
Moberg, David O.
Expanding Horizons for Spirituality Research
Molokotos-Liederman, Lina
The ‘Free Monks’ Phenomenon: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
Musick, Marc
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans
Neal, Sister Marie Augusta
Pre- and Post-Vatican II scales
From Catholic Issues, an online journal.
Nelsen, Hart
Churched and Unchurched Black Americans
Written with Conrad L. Kanagy
Olagoke, Abolade Ezekiel
Religion and Globalization: African Christians in the United States
Olson, Daniel V.
Religious Pluralism and Church
Involvement: Steps in the Exploration of a Changing Relationship
Religious Pluralism and US Church Membership: a Reassessment
Learning from Lyle Schaller: Social Aspects of Congregations
Change in American Religion - A speech summarizing trends in American Religion. Delivered at Indiana University South Bend, February 5, 1992.
Congregational Growth and Decline in Indiana Among Five Mainline Denominations
Pettersson, Per
Long and short term values: the different function of long-term church relationships and one-off experiences
Phillips, Rick
Sociology Market Share and Mormon Church Activity
Pollard, Alton
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Sociological Context
Poloma, Margaret
Pilgrim’s Progress: An Exercise in Reflexive Sociology
Paper prepared for "Integrating Spirituality and Social Science" Session at the Southern Sociological Society Meetings in Atlanta, GA (April, 2001)
The Spirit Bade Me Go: Pentecostalism and
Global Religion
A paper prepared for presentation at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C.
Mysticism and Identity Formation in Social Context: The Case of the Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement
Pilgrim’s Progress: Reflections on a Journey
An article prepared for Testimonies from the Father’s Blessing.
Reviving Pentecostalism at the Millenium:
The Harvest Rock Story
"The Pentecostal Movement"
A Chapter in "Christian Millenarianism: Themes and Perspectives" edited by Stephen Hunt
The Spirit and The Bride: The "Toronto
Blessing" and Church Structure
Manuscript prepared for the Evangelical Studies Bulletin (July, 1996).
Gamaliel's Admonition and the Toronto
Blessing: A Theo-Sociological Report
Article prepared for Rev. Dr. David Hilborn’s edited collection on the "Toronto Blessing".
Toronto Blessing
Entry prepared for the Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements; February, 1998
Charisma and Institution: The Assemblies of God An article written for Christian Century
Putnam, Robert
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
Rahimi, Babak
Dying a Martyr’s Death: The Political Culture of Self-Sacrifice in Contemporary Islamists
Ronsvalle, John and Sylvia
Giving to Religion: How Generous Are We?
Roof, Wade Clark
The Church in the Centrifuge
Religion and Narrative
The 1992 Religious Research Association Presidential Address
Religious Kaleidoscope: American Religion in the 1990's
Baby Boomers and the Return to the Churches
Written with Sr. Mary Johnson
Roozen, Dave home page for Dr. Roozen
Oldline Protestantism: Pockets of Vitality Within a Continuing Stream of Decline
10,001 Congregations: H. Paul Douglass, Strictness and Electric Guitars
The 2001 H. Paul Douglass lecture presented at the annual meeting of the Religious Research Association.
Four Mega-Trends Changing America's Religious Landscape
A presentation at the Religion Newswriters Association Annual Conference, September 22, 2001
Denominations Grow as Individuals Join Congregations
Denominational Growth and Decline
Written with C. Kirk Hadaway
New Church Development and Denominational Growth (1950 - 1998): Symptom or Cause?
Written with C. Kirk Hadaway
The Growth and Decline of Congregations
Written with C. Kirk Hadaway
Individuals and Church Choice
Written with C. Kirk Hadaway
From Church Tradition to Consumer Choice:
The Gallup Surveys of the Unchurched American
Written with Penny Long Marler
A Study of Doctor of Ministry Programs
A 1987 study conducted under the auspices of Auburn Theological Seminary and Hartford Seminary's Center for Social and Religious Research (HIRR).
Empty Nest, Empty Pew: The Boomers Continue Through the Family Cycle
The Political Frame
This is an exceptionally large file. You may use the link above to read the article in its entirety online or choose to download this file.
Worship and Renewal: Surveying Congregational Life
Royle, Marjorie
The Effect of a Church Growth Strategy on United Church of Christ Congregations
Rozell, Mark
Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right
Rymarz, Richard and de Souza, Marian
Maintaining Identity: An Examination of Coptic Orthodox Young Adults
Sherkat, Darren
Investigating the Sect-Church-Sect Cycle: Cohort Specific Attendance Differences Across African American Denominations
Tracking the Restructuring of American Religion: Religious Affiliation and Patterns of Religious Mobility, 1973-1998
Shriver, Peggy L.
A Binocular View of Religion and Research
The 1994 Religious Research Association Presidential Address
Shupe, Anson
The Reconstructionist Movement on The New Christian Right
Smith, Christian and Sikkink, David
Is Private Schooling Privatizing
Spickard, James V.
Rethinking Religious Social Action: What is "Rational" About Rational-Choice Theory?
From Sociology of Religion, September 4, 2000
Stark, Rodney
Secularization, R.I.P. (rest in peace)
Stoffels, Hijme
“Preachers’ kids are the worst”
Results of a Survey among Dutch clergy children
Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M.
Latino Barrio Religion
From Catholic Issues, an online journal.
Syncretic sociology: Towards A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Religion (1997 Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture)
From Sociology of Religion, September 5, 2000
Swatos, Bill
Implicit Religion
From Catholic Issues, an online journal.
Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept
This essay provides an introduction to the secularization debate as it presents itself at the end of the 1990s. From Sociology of Religion, September 6, 2000 written with Kevin J. Christiano.
Swenson, Don
Religious Differences Between Married and Celibate Clergy: Does Celibacy Make a Difference? (The Roman Catholic Priesthood)
Talbot, Margaret
A Mighty Fortress
From the New York Times Magazine
Thompson, Wayne
Growth and Decline in Presbyterian Congregations
Written with Jackson Carroll and Dean Hoge
Thumma, Scott home page for Dr. Thumma
A lecture on Religion and the Internet
Given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this lecture invited Dr. Thumma along with Rev. Charles Henderson and Elena Larsen to discuss how people are using the Internet for religious purposes. You may also wish to visit the MIT website for a summary, transcript of the discussion, and an audio link to the lecture.
Megachurches Today
A Summary of data from the Faith Communities Today Project.
Nondenominational Congregations Study
A compilation of information from the Faith Communities Today project and the Organizing Religious Work Project.
What God Makes Free is Free Indeed: Nondenominational Church Identity and its Networks of Support presented at an annual meeting for the Religious Research Association.
Nondenominational Congregations Today A report from the Faith Communities Today project
Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical an article written for Sociological Analysis
Exploring the Megachurch Phenomena A section from Scott's dissertation describing what megachurches are, their characteristics, and their resonance with the modern cultural context.
Summary of a Survey of Church Webmasters Students from Hartford’s Seminary Fall 2000 course on Religion and the Internet surveyed webmasters from 63 U.S. congregational web sites representing Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and both conservative and liberal Protestantism congregations.
Walking the Cyber-Labyrinth A talk on the implications of the web on our spiritual journeys.
"Connectionalism Beyond the Denomination: Local Religious Ecologies and Beyond" a paper presented by Scott Thumma
A lecture on Religion and the Internet
Given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this lecture invited Dr. Thumma along with Rev. Charles Henderson and Elena Larsen to discuss how people are using the Internet for religious purposes. You may also wish to visit the MIT website for a summary, transcript of the discussion, and an audio link to the lecture.
Tinder, Glenn
Can We be Good Without God? On the political meaning of Christianity
Voye, Liliane
Secularization in a Context of Advanced Modernity
Wang, Yuting
Religious Conversion to Christianity Among Students from the People’s Republic of China: A Comparative Study
Warner, R. Stephen
Approaching Religious Diversity: Barriers, Byways, and Beginnings
Immigrants and the Faith They Bring
Radical Middle
Why More Options Make us Less Happy
Multiethnic Mix
Welch, Michael
Participation and Commitment Among American Catholic Parishoners
Wheeler, Barbara
You Who Were Far Off: Religious Divisions and the Role of Religious Research
The 1995 H. Paul Douglass lecture for the Religious Research Association
Willaime, Jean-Paul
Religion, State and Society in Germany and France
Williams, Rhys H.
Is America In A Culture A War? Yes-No-Sort Of
Political Theology on the Right and Left
Wind, James P.
Leading Congregations, Discovering Congregational Cultures
Wittberg, Patricia
Declining Institutional Sponsorship and Religious Orders: A Study of Reverse Impacts
Wuthnow, Robert
Is There a Place for 'Scientific' Studies of Religion?
Church Realities and Christian Identity in the 21st Century
Divided We Fall: America's Two Civil Religions
Fundamentalism in the World
Pious Materialism: How Americans View Faith and Money
Rediscovering the Sacred: Perspectives on Religion in Contemporary Society
*The full text of this book is provided at this link
Small Groups Forge New Notions of Community and the Sacred
The World of Fundamentalism
What Religious People Think About the Poor
Many of Robert Wuthnow's other articles are available online at his homepage.
Yamane, David
Narrative and Religious Experience
From Sociology of Religion, September 6, 2000
The Essential Half-Truths About Decision-Making in Legislatures: Lessons For and From Religious Advocacy Organizations Keynote Address to the Wisconsin Interfaith IMPACT 20th Anniversary Year Consultation on Faith-Based Public Policy Work in Wisconsin, November 12, 1998.
Affiliation, Salience, Advocacy: Three Religious Factors in Legislative Decision-Making
Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, California, August 2001.
Melting Pots and Salad Bowls at Berkeley: Discourses of Multiculturalism and the American Cultures Course Requirement
Revision of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1992.
Yang, Fenggang
Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Christianity: The Importance of Social and Cultural Contexts
Young, Lawrence
Assessing and updating the Schoenherr-Young projections of clergy decline in the United States Roman Catholic Church (The Roman Catholic Priesthood)
Zrinščak, Siniša
Why, at all, Do We Need Religion?
Religion and Morality in Post-Communist Europe
General Collections of Articles
 Visit the searchable bibliographic database within this site to find many of the major works in sociology of religion.
FindArticles.com - Religion and Sociology Research This link is a listing of over 500 Sociology of Religion articles. To research other topics or if you are having difficulty with this particular list, use their search option to create other topic specific listings.
Weberian Sociology of Religion
Electronic Journal of Sociology
www.religion-online.org
Swiss Online Texts in the Sociology of Religion
 (use Babel Fish to translate)
Journal of Contemporary Religion There are several issues of articles in this excellent publication available online.
Journal of Religion and Society
Journal of Southern Religion
Material Religion electronic journal The articles in this journal while not directly sociological do have considerable interest to persons studying the sociological aspects of religious life.
First Things - An Ecumenical Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University lists many of their publications on the web. Unfortunately, these are available only in paper format at a high cost, not in an inexpensive electronic form.
A comprehensive listing of online religion text sites can be found at Wabash Center's internet resources page.
Resources for American Christianity This site contains articles, information and reflections on many of the projects funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.
American Journal of Sociology - Electronic Division
Published by the University of Chicago Press
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