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Matthew Bersagel Braley Viterbo University From Whence Does Their Help Come? The Religious "Nones" as Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic Read More »
Kraig Beyerlein University of Notre Dame Religion and Social Justice Mobilization: How Community-Level Factors Affect Congregation-Based Activism in Chicago Read More »
Robert Glenn Crosby California Baptist University The Evaluation of a Brief Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Training Program for Church Children’s Ministry Workers: Comparing the Effectiveness of Face-to-Face and Online Delivery Modalities Read More »
Thu Do Georgetown University Impacts of Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement on the Faith Life of U.S. Catholic Youth Read More »
Elizabeth Drescher Santa Clara University Finding God in Googleville: Mapping Christian Presence and Spatial Justice in Silicon Valley Read More »
Erika Gault University of Arizona Connected Faith: A Survey of Black Digital-Religious Beliefs and Practices Read More »
Sam George Global Diaspora Institute Indian American Christianity @55 Read More »
Jehu J. Hanciles Emory University (Candler School of Theology) African Immigrants and Transformations in American Christianity Read More »
Frances Henderson University of Kentucky Research Foundation Black Rural Lives Matter: African American Churches and Anti Racist Organizing in The Rural South Read More »
Ines Wenger Jindra Idaho State University Studying Deconversion among Christian Groups and the Church of the Latter-Day Saints Read More »
Alexei Krindatch National Census of Orthodox Christian Churches / 2020 US Religion Census The “New Traditional” in a Most Traditional Church: How the Pandemic Has Reshaped American Orthodox Christianity Read More »
Susan Bigelow Reynolds Candler School of Theology, Emory University Ways of the Cross: Passion and Protest as Public Theology Read More »
Jared Stewart-Ginsburg Francis Marion University Investigating Practices and Programs that Promote Belonging for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Churches Read More »
Samuel Stroope Louisiana State University Health Conditions and Church Participation Declines among Mexican Americans in Late Life Read More »
Nathan R. Todd University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Understanding the Process of Becoming an LGBT Open and Affirming Congregation Read More »
Rebecca Voelkel Lyndale Congregational United Church of Christ Reparation Models for Predominantly White Faith Communities Read More »
Henry Zonio Asbury University Youth Attitudes on Race and Religion Read More »
Eileen R. Campbell-Reed Union Theological Seminary From Imagining Ministry to Pastoral Imagination Read More »
Paulette Coleman Rethinking Lay Ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME) Read More »
Brandon Thomas Crowley Myrtle Baptist Church Inclusive Black Congregations and Black Ecclesial Queering Read More »
Maxine Davis The University of Texas at Arlington An Investigation into The Men's Group at St. Pius V Parish in Chicago: Intervening to Stop Intimate Partner Violence-Does it work? Read More »
Felipe Amin Filomeno University of Maryland Baltimore County Christian Cosmopolitanism: Faith Communities in Dialogue Read More »
Thomas Christopher Hoklotubbe Cornell College Indigenous North American Interpretations of Christian Scripture Read More »
Brett C. Hoover Loyola Marymount University Operational Theologies of Ministry from Catholic Pastoral Leaders of Color Read More »
Tyler Lefevor Utah State University How can clergy in theologically conservative congregations effectively and authentically support their LGBTQ congregants? Read More »
Laura MacGregor Martin Luther University College Beyond Saints and Superheroes: A Phenomenological Study of the Spiritual Care Needs of Parents Raising Children with Disabilities. Read More »
Mandy McMichael Baylor University Baptist Women in Ministry: In Their Own Words Read More »
Nadia Mian Rutgers University Church-Based Affordable Housing Construction and Advocacy Read More »
David Mislin Temple University Progressive Heartlands: Religious Liberalism in Small-Town U.S.A. Read More »
Keun-Joo Christine Pae Denison University Antiracist Work in Asian American Christian Churches Read More »
Lisa D. Pearce University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Racism Rebuked and Reproduced in Church: How American Gigachurches Responded to the Killing of George Floyd Read More »
Evan Stewart University of Massachusetts Boston Public Religious Repertoires in the United States Read More »
David R. Swartz Asbury University To Live and Die in Dixie: A Kentucky County Wrestles with Faith, Memory, and Its Confederate Statue Read More »
Melissa J Wilde University of Pennsylvania Digitizing the Census of Religious Bodies Read More »
R. Khari Brown Wayne State University Religion and Political Polarization Read More »
Mark Clatterbuck Montclair State University Faith on the Frontlines: Religious Eco-Activism in an Age of Climate Crisis Read More »
Miguel A De La Torre Iliff School of Theology José Martí and the Socio-Philosophical Roots of Cuban-American Racism, Classism, Sexism, and Heterosexism Read More »
Miguel Humberto Díaz Loyola University Chicago A New Agenda for Catholic Theology and Ministry: Perspectives from Queer Theologians of Color Read More »
Sarah Gatson Texas A&M University Creating Alternative Food-Provision Efforts In Local Congregations Read More »
Rachel Kraus Ball State University “My Faith in God has Strengthened:” Examining Religious and Spiritual Changes Among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer Read More »
Terry McCray Bethel AME Church From Whence We've Come: The Development of Black Religious Life and Culture in the Pacific Northwest Read More »
Sara Moslener Central Michigan University After Purity: Stories of Recovery and Resistance Among Current and Former Evangelicals Read More »
Rodolfo Nolasco Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary “Q-connections: Exploring the Phenomenological World of Self-Identifying Queer UMC Clergy Subjected to Social and Religious Mechanisms of Exclusion.” Read More »
Stephen W. Offutt Asbury Theological Seminary Religion, Poverty & Development Project: Stage Three Read More »
Joseph Martin Palacios University of Southern California The Changing Identity of American Catholics in Evolving Multi-Cultural and Global Religious and Identity Contexts Read More »
Jerry Z. Park Baylor University Diversity, Political Engagement, and American Congregations Read More »
Paula Pryce The University of British Columbia Seeking Deeper Communion in a Mobile World: North American Contemplative Christian Ritual Engagement with Vedanta Hinduism and its Effects on Mainline Churches Read More »
Susan Bales Ridgely University of Wisconsin-Madison Accidental Pioneers: The Generational Effects of Desegregating the Raleigh Diocese Read More »
Jeanette Rodriguez Seattle University From Ecclesial Challenge to the Renewal of the Church: Spirituality of Women Called to Roman Catholic Priesthood Read More »
Jason S. Sexton UCLA A Church Inside the Prison: An Intersectional and Personal Theological Account Read More »
Gary Adler Penn State University A Changing Wall: Local Religious Leaders and Church-State Interaction in a New Era Read More »
James M Ault, Jr. New York Theological Seminary Philadelphia’s Esperanza: Hope for American Cities Read More »
Janeé Rolonda Avent Harris East Carolina University Black Pastors’ Mental Health Experiences and the Influence on their Responses to Mental Health Needs in Their Congregation Read More »
Margaret (Peggy) L. Bendroth American Congregational Association "Not Feminists, But": Protestant Churchwomen between the Times, 1920-1970 Read More »
Ryan P Burge First Baptist Church The Social and Political Implications of Non-Denominational Protestantism Read More »
Brad Christerson Biola University Reinventing Sanctuary: Mobilizing Congregations to Protect Vulnerable Immigrants in the Age of Mass Deportation Read More »
Gregory Lee Cuellar Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Religion in Immigration Detention: Securing Faiths in a State of Removal Read More »
Daniel R. DiLeo Creighton University Climate Change and Laudato Si’: A Study of U.S. Catholic Bishops, Priests, and Parishes Read More »
Stephanie Rebekah Gaskill Louisiana Interchurch Conference Welcoming "The Worst of the Worst": How Churches Respond to Members Convicted of Violent Crimes and Sex Offenses Read More »
David Hadley Jensen Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Protestant Theological Formation in a Religiously Diverse Age Read More »
Katie Roberts Lauve-Moon Texas Christian University Creating Equitable and Inclusive Queer Spaces in Open & Affirming Congregations Read More »
Jason Pudlo Oral Roberts University Congregational Preparedness and Disaster Response Networks Read More »
Erin Raffety Princeton Theological Seminary An Ethnographic Approach to Pastoral Care with Persons with Disabilities and their Families Read More »
Melissa J Wilde University of Pennsylvania Fixing the State of the Research on American Evangelicals Read More »
Gina Zurlo Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Women in World Christianity Project: A Mixed-Methods Study of Gender in the World’s Largest Religion Read More »
Tricia C. Bruce Maryville College Converting Sacred Space: Religious Buildings in Transition Read More »
Jason Bruner Arizona State University An Ecumenism of Blood: American Christians, Persecution, and the Imagination of a Global Christianity Read More »
Mark A. Chaves Duke University Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study Read More »
Benjamin L. Hartley George Fox University World Christianity's Emissary: John R. Mott and the birth of the global church Read More »
Ariela Keysar Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut From one-religion to mixed-religion and no-religion families: The religious evolution of early millennials from adolescence to adulthood Read More »
Lenore M Knight Johnson Trinity Christian College Living in a White Christian Body: Understanding Limitations to Faith-Based Antiracism Work Read More »
Terrence O Lewis West Chester University of Pennsylvania LGBT Affirmative Ministries in African-American Communities Read More »
Néstor Medina Emmanuel College Unmasking the multiple faces of mestizaje Read More »
Tia Noelle Pratt St. Joseph's University Black and Catholic, Catholic and Black: Structure, Racism and Identity in the African-American Catholic Experience Read More »
Phillis Isabella Sheppard Vanderbilt University This is my calling: an Ethnography of Black Women's Vocational Formation Read More »
Nam Soon Song Knox College, University of Toronto Challenges and Opportunities for Asian Canadian Immigrant Churches with First and Second Generation Congregants: A Qualitative Study of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean Churches in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Read More »
Stephen Staggs Calvin College Members Only: Race and Religion in the Dutch Reformed Church in North America, 1772–1827 Read More »
Jonathon Lee Wiggins Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Assistance of U.S. Catholic Ministries in Helping Vietnamese American Catholics Adapt to U.S. Society Read More »
Jason Wollschleger Whitworth University Bombingham Read More »
Mark Yarhouse Regent University XGI: The Gender Identity Project (A longitudinal study) Read More »
Grace Yukich Quinnipiac University Be Not Afraid: Religion and Courage in Uncertain Times Read More »
Randall Balmer Dartmouth College Orthodoxy in Alaska: Old World Faith in the New World Read More »
Melissa D Browning McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University Changing Church in order to Change the World: A study of worshipping congregations practicing deep solidarity Read More »
Wendy A. Cadge Brandeis University Congregation-Port Connections: Case Studies of Port Chaplaincy in the U.S. and Canada Read More »
Candi K. Cann Baylor University Saving and Selling Black Bodies: Examining the Role of Christian Identity in the African-American Funeral Home Read More »
Stephen C Collins Yale University School of Medicine Childlessness in the Church: Exploring how clergy guide and support congregants through infertility. Read More »
William V. D'Antonio Catholic University of America Proposal to conduct The Sixth Nationwide Survey of American Catholics in a Changing Church Read More »
Gillian Avrum Frank Center for the Study of Religion Making Choice Sacred: Liberal Religion and Reproductive Rights in the United States, 1965-1980 Read More »
Timothy EW Gloege Fighting Fundamentalism: the Progressive Protestant Search for a Scientific Faith Read More »
David Keck Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Gamers as Disciples: Video Games, Ethics, and the Church Read More »
Luis Leon The University of Denver Testify: Mapping Conversion Narratives among Latino Pentecostal Men Read More »
Tony Tian-Ren Lin Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Race and Faith in Multiethnic Communities and Churches Read More »
Mindy Makant Lenoir-Rhyne University State of Female Clergy - ELCA Read More »
Nancy N. Nason-Clark University of New Brunswick Christianity and Abuse Read More »
Paul D. Numrich Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus Space-Sharing Principles for Religious Organizations and Groups Read More »
Josh Packard University of Northern Colorado Church: Exploring the Faith Lives of the Dechurched Read More »
Richard N. Stewart Lutheran Theological Seminary Gathering African American Lutheran History and Dissemination in Luther’s 500th Anniversary year. Read More »
Todd Billings Western Theological Seminary Congregational Life and the Dying: Cultivating Resurrection Hope Among the Dying in a Congregational Read More »
David Feltmate Auburn University at Montgomery Holy Families: Family Ministry and Culture in the River Region Read More »
Lorn Foster Pomona College We’re Marching to Zion: The African American Church and Civic Engagement in Los Angeles from 1900 to 1950 Read More »
Alicia Kaigler Jackson Covenant College Isaac Anderson : Minister and Politician Read More »
Julie M Lane Fresno Pacific University Best Practices in Christian Schools: Serving Students with Disabilities Read More »
Amy Levad University of St. Thomas Paths of Freedom: Practices of Prison Ministry, Education, and Activism in Response to Mass Incarcer Read More »
Vincent William Lloyd Villanova University Religious Education in Prisons Read More »
Hans Oh UC Berkeley Ministering to congregants with mental illnesses in the Korean-American church Read More »
Jan H Pranger Concordia College Christian Communities and the Extraction Industries in Western North Dakota Read More »
Russell E. Richey Emory University, Candler School of Theology Why Methodism’s Broken Heart? Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana: 1816-1876 Read More »
Corwin E Smidt Calvin College The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy Read More »
Stephen A Werner St. Louis College of Pharmacy Daniel Lord, S.J., The Restless Flame: Thinking Big in a Parochial World Read More »

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