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CommentaryThe Top Five Religion Trends to Watch in 2016From the rise of evangelical hipsters to the rise of religious “nones,” religion is in a period of flux as we end one year and look forward to the next. Here at …Topics: Black Church, Catholics and Catholicism, Christians and Christianity, Creativity and Innovation, Economic Inequality, Evangelicals and Evangelicalism, Hunger and Food Policy, Immigration, Latinos, Megachurches, Millennials, Place and Religion, Political Attitudes and Values, Protests and Uprisings, Race and Culture, Religious "Nones", Religious Leadership, Social Services, Voting and Elections
CommentaryMade in Los Angeles – How One Church Changed With Its CommunityAt her old church, church leaders looked “at me like a sinner for plucking my eyebrows!” remembered Sonia. The church’s gender-specific regulations, imported from the congregation’s mother church in El Salvador, also …Topics: Community Dynamics, Creativity and Innovation, Latinos, Millennials, Pentecostals and Pentecostalism, Place and Religion, Southern California, Transnational
ReportLatino Ministry in Southern California: A Preliminary Report on Latino ChurchesArlene Sánchez-Walsh provides an overview of important issues facing Latino Protestant churches in Southern California. Download a PDF of the reportTopics: Immigration, Latinos, Race and Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Southern California
ReportThe Latino Church NextThe Religious Scene in Latino Los Angeles 2012 To be a Latino Christian is fundamentally to believe that the God who continues to interact with humanity will continue to do so in …Topics: Catholics and Catholicism, Christians and Christianity, Latinos, National and Cultural Identity, Race and Ethnicity, Southern California
CommentaryDemographic Change: Casualties or Opportunities?This post originally appeared on Patheos’ Black, White and Gray blog. At the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, we’ve been talking a lot lately about how different communities in the …Topics: Black Church, Latinos, Place and Religion, Population Trends, Race and Ethnicity, Religious Affiliation, Southern California