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Evangelicals Trending Toward Stronger Attachments to Their Faith and Churches Over the Decades
Amid the growth within the United States' population of people with no religious affiliation, a study by a sociologist at the University of Nebraska claims American evangelicals have grown in their identification with their religious beliefs and churches at the same time as American Catholics are trending in the opposite direction. Study website >>
Young Scholars in American Religion Program 2013-2014
The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (CSRAC) at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) announces a program for early career scholars in American Religion. The aims of all sessions of the program are to develop ideas and methods of instruction in a supportive workshop environment, stimulate scholarly research and writing, and create a community of scholars that will continue into the future. Ten scholars will be selected, with the understanding that they will commit to the program for all dates. Each participant will be expected to produce a course syllabus, with justification of teaching approach, and a publishable research article. Costs for transportation to Indianapolis, lodging, and meals for the seminars will be covered, and there is no application fee. CSRAC website >>
The deadline for application is January 15, 2013. Further information will be available on the CSRAC website in the next few weeks on the CSRAC website >>
Evangelical Voters More Unified in Their Conservative Voting Patterns?
This article in Christianity Today about early analysis of the 2012 Presidential and local elections would seem to suggest that talk in recent years arguing evangelicals were moving toward the Democrats and political points leftward may not have been on-target. One caveat for thinking about the piece's observation that evangelicals have moved from a 50-50 split between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates since 1980: that race was something of an “evangelical political cage match ” pitting the candidacy of Southern Democrat—and avowedly born-again incumbent—Jimmy Carter, vs. the new darling of the emerging Religious Right, Ronald Reagan. Read the article on-line >>
Issue #82 of the ESB Now Available
The Summer 2012 issue (#82) of The Evangelical Studies Bulletin is now available online in its entirety and can be found here.
New Survey Shows “Nones” on the Rise and Self-Identifying Protestants On the Decrease
A new study just released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life states that those identifying as having “no religion ” now account for just under 20% of the population, and includes nearly 30% of those under 30 years of age. Meanwhile, fewer than half (48%) of the population now describe themselves as “Protestant. ” Study website >>
Link to 2012 Billy Graham Center Archival Research Lecture
The text for a recent presentation by Dr. Hans Krabbendam, the Assistant Director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middleburg, the Netherlands on “The Lost Continent? The Discovery of Europe as a Mission Field by American Evangelicals, 1940-1980” can be found here.
Study: Public Perceptions of Size of Various American Religious Groups
According to a new study from Grey Matter Research & Consulting, the American Public believes that only 20% of the U.S. population is Protestant, and that even Protestants seriously underestimate the percentage of people in the country who are Protestant. Meanwhile, most other groups (except Catholics) greatly overestimate the size of their own faith community.
Read the press release >>
American Bible Society Releases Its “State of the Bible 2012” Report
The New York City-based American Bible Society (founded in 1816) has released its annual State of the Bible report. Among its findings: 85% of American households own a Bible, but 54% of those surveyed could not name the first five books of the Old Testament. Report website >>
ISAE's People of Faith Video Series Wins Awards
The International Christian Visual Media (ICVM) group has announced that the ISAE's 6-part documentary video series People of Faith was selected as the winner of two “Bronze Crown” awards in the categories of “Best Series” and “Best Documentary Over $50,000”. Website >>
Colson death
April 23rd, 2012
Remembering influential evangelical leader Charles Colson (1931-2012) who passed away April 21st.
Read article in Christianity Today >>
Berger on Pew Lausanne Survey
March 1st, 2012
Eminent sociologist of religion Peter Berger provides an interesting analysis of a Pew survey of evangelical leaders at the 2010 Third Lausanne Congress of World Evangelization held in Cape Town in 2010.
Read article in The American Interest >>
People of Faith webpage up
February 9th, 2012
The new webpage for the ISAE-produced video series People of Faith: Christianity in America is up and running at People of Faith Series website >>
People of Faith Video Series Announcement
January 17th, 2012
People of Faith: Christianity in America, a new 6-part DVD study series produced by the ISAE is now ready for purchase through Vision Video >>
Billy Graham Project Grant Announcement
December 6th, 2011
The Lilly Endowment has awarded the ISAE a two year grant to study the career and legacy of Billy Graham.
CT Stats for November
November 15th, 2011
“Go Figure” – recent stats on politics, evolution, and ministry from Christianity Today magazine.
Read article in Christianity Today >>
BGC Archives On-Line Exhibit
November 1st, 2011
A new on-line exhibit from the Billy Graham Center Archives on the famed Memorial Day 1945 Youth for Christ rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Art Holmes’ Passing
October 11th, 2011
Influential Wheaton Philosophy Professor Arthur F. Holmes (1924-2011) passes away.
Read Wheaton College news release >
Evangelicals and the Economy
September 13th, 2011
Pew Research Center says Evangelicals more pessimistic than the general public about the economy
Read article in Christianity Today >>