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RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND CIVIC LIFE:
WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS

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Religious Practice and Civic Engagement: A Demographic Overview and Emerging Data. 

• Tom W. Smith, Ph.D., Director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
• Carson Mencken, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Baylor University.
• Christopher Bader, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Baylor University.
• Discussant: Jeffrey Evans, Ph.D. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Panel 1 - Part 1 | Panel 1 - Part 2

Introductory Remarks, Opening Session Transcript

 

Religiosity and Behavioral Outcomes: Preventing the Negative.  

• John Wallace, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh.
• Jeffrey Ulmer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University.
• Scott Desmond, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University.
• Discussant: W. Bradford Wilcox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia.

Panel 2 - Part 1 | Panel 2 - Part 2

Preventing the Negative Transcript

Keynote Address: Myths about American Religion

• Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.

 
Keynote Address

 

Religiosity and Behavioral Outcomes: Promoting the Positive.

• Marc Musick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.
• Byron Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Baylor Institute for the Studies of Religion.
• Sung Joon Jang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Baylor University.
• Discussant: Patrick Fagan, Ph.D., William H. G. Fitzgerald Senior Research Fellow in Family and
  Cultural Issues, The Heritage Foundation.

Panel 3 - Part 1 | Panel 3 - Part 2

Promoting the Positive Transcript

Research on Religiosity: A Discussion of Methodology. 

• Moderator: Kristin Moore, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Child Trends.
• Panelists: David Dollahite, Professor of Family Life, Brigham Young University;
  Roger Finke, Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University;
  Annette Mahoney, Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University;
  Mark Regnerus, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.

Panel 4 -Part 1 | Panel 4 - Part 2

Methodology Discussion Transcript