Word: baylor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington University School of Medicine and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston also received grants...
...When sociologists at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) commenced a landmark three-year survey on religion in America, they did something different. The survey has been called the most extensive and sensitive study of religion ever conducted, with more than 1,700 people who each answered nearly 400 questions on American religion and spirituality."We wanted to do something that most surveys don't and that is to probe questions that are typically not asked on surveys," said researcher Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of sociology and co-director of the ISR, when the results were released...
...Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with...
...denomination has been a sociological non-starter for a while. More interesting is that at least one Baylor team member is claiming that its Type of God categories are more predictive than church attendence or Bible reading. This is novel, and if it's true, a lot of political strategists will be up late digesting the Baylor numbers. But for the average reader, the big drawback of the study at present is that its categories do not have a natural ring to them. It was easy to understand "Presbyterian" or "frequent churchgoer." It's a lot harder to figure...
...Paul Froese, assistant professor of sociology at Baylor, has said: "This is a very powerful tool to understand core differences in the United States; If I know your image of God, I can tell all kinds of things about you. It's a central part of worldview and it's linked to how you think about the world in general." Froese may be right - and if he is, then his ways of divvying up believerdom may gradually become more natural. But for now it seems to me that one of the major goals of the study, which will...