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Christianity in America Sociology of Religion

‘God on the Quad.’

A good cover story in the Boston Globe Magazine about the evangelical trend among MIT and Harvard undergraduates. (It’s a trend I think about often when riding the Red Line downtown to attend King’s Chapel on Sunday mornings. I get off at Park Street with countless young people, who all walk up the steps to […]

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Sociology of Religion Theology

Beyond ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ in religion.

Four categories that may be more useful.

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Sociology of Religion Unitarian Universalism

Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition

A sampler of contemporary scholarly descriptions of Unitarian Universalism from assorted general reference works on religion.

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Politics Sociology of Religion

Religion in the voting booth.

Seven myths about God and the American voter.

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Sociology of Religion

Too many churches?

Omar McRoberts’s four-year study of Dorchester’s impoverished Four Corners neighborhood, with 29 churches in less than 1 square mile, found that the churches are surprisingly uninvolved in their neighborhood.