Happenings
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Gender, Family, and the Workplace
Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer just joined the ranks of a very small number of women at the top of Fortune 500 companies (19, to be exact). And at six months pregnant, she is a visible and public reminder of… Continue reading
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Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture, by Marie Keenan (2011)
“Among the explanations posited for child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy is the notion that abusers constitute a few ‘bad apples’ in an otherwise healthy orchard. In writing Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational… Continue reading
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Recent reviews of Faithful Revolution
Spring 2012 introduced another round of journal reviews for my book, Faithful Revolution: How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church (Oxford UP, 2011). A review written by John C. Seitz (author of No Closure: Catholic Practice and Boston’s Parish… Continue reading
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Visiting the Highlander Center with my social movements class
What better way to bring social movements to life than with a visit to the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN with my Collective Behavior & Social Movements class. Rich in movement history and social activism, the… Continue reading
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Sociology and Sustainability
Earth Week provides good occasion to reflect upon connections between sustainability and one’s own field. A recent Sustainability Workshop for Maryville College faculty gave me the chance to do just that. In what ways does Sociology incorporate intentional consideration of the earth… Continue reading
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Thank You to The Louisville Institute
I offer my sincere gratitute to The Louisville Institute for supporting my current research on “personal” (non-territorial) parishes in the Catholic Church. Thanks to a 2012 Project Grant for Researchers, I will be able to expand my work nationally and… Continue reading
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Faithful Revolution Reviewed in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
The most recent issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (December 2011) features a review of Faithful Revolution written by Jerome P. Baggett (Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University). A snippet from the first paragraph: “This is a fascinating story.… Continue reading
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Faithful Revolution profiled in Catholic Books Review
Catholic Books Review has just published a review of my book, Faithful Revolution: How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church (Oxford UP 2011). Following an insightful summary, Melissa Cidade of CARA (Georgetown University) suggests that “This book would… Continue reading
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Understanding “Occupy Wall Street”
With “Occupy Wall Street” taking hold in cities across the U.S., social movement scholars have been called upon to provide a framework through which to better understand organic uprisings. In my own conversation with a Knoxville reporter for WBIR-TV, I… Continue reading
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Review of my book (Faithful Revolution) published in Mobilization: An International Quarterly
The latest issue of Mobilization: An International Quarterly (September 2011) features a review of my book, Faithful Revolution: How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church. Reviewer Grace Yukich (Princeton University) suggests that the book “could not come at… Continue reading
