- Center for the Study of
Religion
http://www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/
[The Center at Princeton University supports a number of projects. For
current information, see the linked web pages.]
- Center for the Study of Religion and
American Culture
http://www.iupui.edu/~raac/
[Located at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis, the
Center currently is midway through a project (funded by the Lilly Endowment)
on the teaching and practice of religion in higher education. The project is
expected to produce ethnographic accounts of religion on four campuses in the
U.S.: an African American University, a Roman Catholic University, a
Protestant liberal arts college, and a large state-supported
university.]
-
Danish Pluralism Project
http://www.teo.au.dk/cms/english/Pluralism/pluralism_introduction_eng.htm
[An academic research project to document growing religious diversity in
Denmark.]
- Leonard E. Greenburg Center
for the Study of Religion in Public Life
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/
[Publisher of Religion
in the News, the Center is located at Trinity College in
Connecticut.]
- Louisville
Institute
http://www.louisville-institute.org/
[The Institute is part of a project at the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
that is funded by the Lilly Endowment and supports a program for the study of
American religion. The main goals are to contribute toward understanding of
American religion and encourage the vitality of American religious
institutions through grants and conferences. Areas of particular interest are
Protestantism, Catholicism, African-American churches, and Hispanic religious
experience.]
- Material History of American
Religion Project
http://www.materialreligion.org/
[Based at Columbia Theological Seminary and supported by the Lilly
Endowment, the project suppports studiy of the history of American religion
with a focus on material objects and economics.]
- Pew Forum on Religion
and American Public Life
http://pewforum.org/links/index.php?LinkID=1
[Projects supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts.]
- The Pluralism Project
http://www.pluralism.org
[Begun under support from the Lilly Endowment and directed by Diana Eck, the
project has engaged students and scholars in study and documentation of "the
growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its
new immigrant religious communities.]
-
Project Wittenberg
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
[The project involves "an ad hoc group of individuals dedicated to posting
on the internet cross-section of classic and historic texts written by
Lutherans."]
- Religion, Family, and
Culture Project
http://www.uchicago.edu/divinity/family/
[Directed by Don Browning in coordination with the Louisville Institute and
supported by the Lilly Endowment, the project "seeks to address the broad
contemporary crisis in American family culture from a diverse array of
theological, historical, legal, biblical, and cultural
perspectives.]
- Religion,
Immigration and Civic Life
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/religionimmigration/
[Research supported and coordinated by the Social Science Research Council
"to stimulate scholars of immigration to take up neglected questions of
religion in immigrant life and scholars of religion to consider how their
perspectives might contribute to new interpretations of immigration issues."
Includes working groups and support for younger scholars.]
- Religious
Pluralism in Southern California
http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/projects/newpluralism/home.html
[The project examines the impact that religious pluralism is having on civic
life in Southern California. It is funded by a grant from the Ford
Foundation.]
- Symbolism,
Media and the Lifecourse Project
http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/mcm/research.htm
[Directed by Steward M. Hoover of the University of Colorado at Boulder and
funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, the project will support study
of new trends in religion and the media.]
- White House Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/
[A U.S. federal-government supported project from the executive
branch.]
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