The Evangelical 99 Percent
This post originally appeared on Trans-Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. Last week I spent a day at the annual Evangelical Theological Society meetings in San Francisco. My entree …
Populations and Generational Change
Religion and Youth
Religion and Youth Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Editor (Routledge: 2011) What is the future of religion given the responses of young people? What impact do existing religious forms …
Religion and Politics, by the Numbers
This post originally appeared on Trans/Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion blog. The great American political experiment has passed many milestones along the path toward a more inclusive society. …
The End of the (Evangelical) World As We Know It
This post originally appeared at Trans/Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. Several recent reports suggest that the evangelical Christian world, as we have come to know it over …
The New Politics of Fear
This post originally appeared on Trans/Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. Although there are still some lingering questions from last November about the role that values-voters played in …
Jared Diamond on The Evolution of Religions
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).
Pentecostalism in the 21st Century
A panel discussion that was part of “Spirit in the World: The Dynamics of Pentecostal Growth and Experience,” held October 7, 2006.
Who Voted and Does It Matter? A New Agenda in Washington
A panel of politically informed commentators assess the policy implications of the new administration. Together with politically engaged students, they look at whether religion mattered in this election and its role within the new administration.
Whom You Do vs. What You Do
This post originally appeared at Trans/missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. With an important election looming, our constantly simmering political contest over “values” is once again at full …
A More Complex View of Gender and Sexuality in Christianity
The CRCC Interdisciplinary Research Group held its first seminar on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. This session featured Heather White (New College of Florida) and Sheila Briggs (USC). Lori Meeks writes that the papers revealed “Christian views of gender and sexuality would surprise contemporary Christians.”