Religious disaffiliation—leaving the religious tradition in which one was raised for no
religious affiliation in adulthood—has become more common in recent years, though few …

Abstract This study uses General Social Survey data to compare gender and homosexuality
across American religious groups from the 1970s to 2014, examining three possible patterns …

Previous work on conservative Protestant creationism fails to account for other creationists
who are much less morally invested in opposition to evolution, raising the sociological …

While there have been many approaches to classifying religious traditions in the social
sciences (see Hackett and Lindsay 2008), the most popular approach is the religious …

The relationship between atheism and health is poorly understood within the
Religion/Spirituality–health literature. While the extant literature promotes the idea that …

Research on the way Protestants interpret the Bible in relationship to science has tended to
focus on biblical literalists; less research, however, has examined the heterogeneity of how …

Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion's relationship
with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper …

For all the liberties granted Westerners, a small stream of seekers is looking into the
seemingly austere plain Anabaptist sects (Amish, Mennonites, etc.). What are they seeking …

White evangelical Christianity is widely recognized as a powerful force in US culture and
politics. Most observers consider white evangelicalism to be a religious phenomenon that …

A debate surrounds the topic of best practices for faculty development. There are those that
hold the position that faculty are more likely to develop as a faculty member when they …