Happenings
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Organizational Innovation & Religion
A brand new Handbook of Religion and Society (Springer 2016) edited by David Yamane is now out, featuring a chapter I coauthored with Josh Packard on organizational innovation! This volume offers an exceptional resource for understanding religion at the nexus of social… Continue reading
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Everyday Religion
How much does high religiosity (praying and attending services frequently) matter for everyday behaviors? A PEW report presents new findings on this question, and I offered commentary at the invitation of WBIR in Knoxville. View the video here. Continue reading
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Coming soon…
The Amazon listing is now live for my forthcoming co-edited volume with Mary Ellen Koniecnzy and Charlie Camosy, Polarization in the US Catholic Church (Liturgical Press). With a release date set in the midst of the 2016 election season, the book brings… Continue reading
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“The State of Faith in Tennessee, 2015” (NPR-Knoxville)
I was pleased to participate in an engaging conversation today as an invited guest on WUOT (NPR-Knoxville)’s “Dialogue” show with Brandon Hollingsworth. Building upon findings from the PEW Religious Landscape Study, today’s hour-long conversation considered what trends in religious affiliation among Tennessee & U.S. adults mean for… Continue reading
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Seeing the Parish with the Sociological Imagination (TAPP Update)
The American Parish Project (TAPP), led by Drs. Gary Adler, Brian Starks, and myself, recently generated a newsletter summarizing new research discussed at this summer’s Seminar on the American Parish. This newsletter went out to all U.S. dioceses with the aim of generating engaged… Continue reading
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API Catholics: Presenting Study Findings to the U.S. Bishops Conference
After an intensive, mixed-method, national study of Asian and Pacific Islander Catholics in the United States, I and co-PI Dr. Stephen Cherry presented our findings to the Fall 2015 gathering of the U.S. Bishops Conference in Baltimore, MD. It was wonderful… Continue reading
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SheSource Expert Media Profile
I am pleased to now be including among the experts in SheSource, “an online braintrust of female experts on diverse topics designed to serve journalists, producers and bookers who need female guests and sources.” View my full SheSource profile here. I… Continue reading
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Moved
The following is a rough script of a message I delivered for a Maryville College Chapel Service on Tuesday, September 22, 2015. There are two mass movements of people underway today. One is the mass movement of Syrians, fleeing a… Continue reading
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Catholic Connections
PEW’s new data on Catholics is helping us to better understand the U.S. Church, in anticipation of Pope Francis’ first visit to America. Here, I breakdown the study and my own role in it for Knoxville’s NBC affiliate, WBIR: http://t.co/tdpWGkSt8j Continue reading
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Nearly half of Americans are connected to Catholicism in some way
PEW just released a groundbreaking study of contemporary U.S. Catholics. Having participated in conversations from the shaping to analysis stages of this study as a part of the advisory panel, I’m happy to see the full report now available as a tool… Continue reading
Tricia C. Bruce, PhD 