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2009-12-17
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life;
Analyzes government and social restrictions on religious beliefs and practices worldwide, including percentages of countries with low, moderate, high, or very high limitations; percentages of the global population living in them; and types of limitations.
2010-02-17
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life;
Presents survey findings on the religious affiliations, beliefs, and practices of 18- to 29-year-olds, compared with those of other generations at the same age. Explores views on social and political issues such as homosexuality and religion in school.
2001-12-01
Pew Internet & American Life Project;
Presents findings from a survey conducted in August and September 2001, to document the use of the Internet for spiritual or religious purposes.
2008-05-15
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life;
Compares the religious affiliations, church attendance, and religious salience of the cell phone-only, landline, and combined cell/landline samples, and explores the extent to which the differences are due to the relative youth of the cell-only group.
2015-03-03
Public Religion Research Institute;
Support for prioritizing comprehensive immigration legislation crosses the political spectrum although strength of support varies. In this survey 85 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of independents and 62 percent of Republicans express a preference for prioritizing comprehensive immigration legislation over undoing Obama's immigration policies. Majorities of every major religious group also say Republicans in Congress should prioritize passing comprehensive immigration policies, including 78 percent of the religiously unaffiliated, 76 percent of minority Protestants, 73 percent of white mainline Protestants, 72 percent of Catholics, and 64 percent of white evangelical Protestants.
2012-02-23
Pew Research Center;
Presents findings about coverage of religion in mainstream media outlets, blogs, and Twitter in 2011, including top stories and themes, the focus on Islam, the role of religion in the presidential election campaign, and share in social media coverage.
1992-11-01
National Council on Crime and Delinquency;
Research conducted by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency has uncovered an abundant variety of religious responses to incarceration. First, religious participation can help an inmate overcome the depression, guilt, and self-contempt that so often accompanies the prison sentence. Second, inmates may seek a way to avoid the constant threats faced in prison. In many ways, the prisoner's desire for religion is not very different from that of the free-world citizen in that he or she seeks religion to make life more livable.
2003-11-01
James Irvine Foundation;
Offers insights from Irvine's work with six California faith-based civic engagement projects. Describes a framework for differentiating faith-based models, and examines what motivates the move from congregation leader to community leadership.
2007-04-25
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life;
Examines Hispanics' religious beliefs and practices and explores how these are related to the political views of Latinos of all faiths. Examines the growth of evangelical and pentecostal Christianity among Latinos, paying special attention to Catholics.
2012-05-08
Pew Global Attitudes Project;
Presents survey findings about Egyptians' national mood and outlook, views of leaders and institutions, priorities for government, beliefs about the role of Islam in politics, attitudes toward democracy, and perceptions of the United States and Israel.
2012-03-22
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life;
Shares findings from a survey of prison chaplains about the correctional system; what they do and should do; the religious lives of inmates, including the prevalence of extremism; religious rehabilitation programs; and the role of volunteers.
1998-01-01
Rockefeller Archive Center;
Religion is a well-compartmentalized element of modern American history, referred to and recognized as an aspect of culture, and even of politics, but today usually ranked below what Thomas Bender has called the "holy trinity of race, class and gender" when historians discuss the character of American society. Scholarship in the history of philanthropy, ranging from the narrative of Robert Bremner to the critiques of Peter Dobkin Hall, have identified religion as a fundamental motivational force, yet "quite clearly," as Hall himself has noted, "the scholarship of philanthropy has given religion remarkably short shrift." Such scholars have "assumed disinterested benevolence on the part of donors," Barry Karl and Stan Katz have argued, "but did not feel required to demonstrate it." This has been especially true of the religious context of the philanthropy of John D. Rockefeller, arguably the greatest philanthropist in American history. Even Ron Chernow's recent block-buster biography of Rockefeller does not identify a specific connection between Rockefeller's religious impulses and his particular philanthropic acts.
