Marin County’s Ten Largest Faith Groups 2010 Religious Group Number of temples, mosques, churches, or synagogues Number of adherents % of total population Roman Catholic 30 77,114 30.55 Episcopal 12 3,501 1.39 …

Humboldt County’s Ten Largest Faith Groups 2010 Religious Group Number of temples, mosques, churches, or synagogues Number of adherents % of total population Roman Catholic 13 9,901 7.35 Mormon 7 3,557 2.64 …

Contra Costa County’s Ten Largest Faith Groups 2010 Religious Group Number of temples, mosques, churches, or synagogues Number of adherents % of total population Roman Catholic 34 228,400 21.77 Nondenominational 72 26,080 …

Alameda County’s Ten Largest Faith Groups 2010 Religious Group Number of temples, mosques, churches, or synagogues Number of adherents % of total population Roman Catholic 53 231,500 15.33 Nondenominational 147 61,109 4.05 …

This post originally appeared at Trans/Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. In his recent state of the state address, Gov. Arnold Shwarzenegger addressed the issue of California’s prison …

“Our concern is that many of the gospels being preached today are designed for the ear, not the human condition,” Rev. Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray told the Los Angeles Times. “Our goal …

Timothy Sato and Donald E. Miller report on the activities of Christians Supporting Community Organizing.   Download a PDF of the Report

“Redeeming, Ruling, and Reaping” was published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 48, no. 2 ( June 2009): 332-352. Jon Miller, senior research associate with CRCC, and Gregory Stanczak …

In August 2006, a collaboration of African American clergy, community-based organizations and state and county representatives joined together to form a Public Health Reentry Task Force to address the health care needs …

Richard Flory, senior research associate and research associate professor of sociology, documents the Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations (RCNO) Training Center’s public health reentry program in San Diego. The RCNO effort addresses …

Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation Richard Flory & Donald E. Miller (Rutgers University Press: 2008)             Despite the masses still lining up to …

Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement Donald E. Miller & Tetsunao Yamamori, Authors (University of California Press: 2007)           How and why is Christianity’s center …

A Sociology of Spirituality Kieran Flanagan, editor (Routledge: 2007)             The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This …

Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims  James L. Heft (ed.) (Fordham University Press: 2006) This books was supported by the USC Center for …

This article was published in Surfacing: an Interdisciplinary Journal for Gender in the Global South, 2, no. 1 (2009): 1-17. Surfacing is an international peer-reviewed journal of graduate scholarship that was initiated …

John B. Orr provides an overview of church-state guidelines for state-funded programs.   Download a PDF of the Report

This report by Gregory C. Stanczak and Donald E. Miller summarizes findings from a research project funded by the Governance and Civil Society unit of the Ford Foundation.   Download a PDF …

Craig McGarvey explores civic engagement strategies (faith-based and community organizing, popular education, collective learning) and provides an overview of these strategies in California.   Download a PDF of the report

USC faculty members present papers related to problems of homelessness in Los Angeles.   Download a PDF of the Report

Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller (Center for Religion and Civic Culture 2004) “Do you realize the weight of living with someone who killed your family? …