Sentences with phrase «american life study»

According to a Pew Internet and American Life Study, senior -LSB-...]

Researched by Michael Emerson of Rice University and David Sikkink of Notre Dame (and released by the Association of Religion Data Archives), the second wave of the Portraits of American Life Study found that divergent perceptions on race among black and white Christians have continued to widen...

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The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.

A 2013 study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found 49 daytime workers experienced a better quality of life after exposure to more daylight in the office.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

One out of every four American Internet users — about 33 million people — has rated a product, service, or person online, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Washington, D.C. - based Pew Research Center.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

According to their study, 54.1 % of Americans rated their lives highly enough to be considered «thriving» while only 42.1 % were classified as «struggling.»

In fact, Career Builder recently did a study that found some alarming evidence that most Americans have poor spending habits and are living paycheck - to - paycheck.

Studies range widely in their conclusions about the degree to which Americans are likely to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement, largely because of different assumptions about how much income this goal requires.

Based on a Living Wage study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the average American spends the following amount on expenses each year:

A new study has drawn attention to the plight of Americans who are haunted by top 5 conditions cutting their lives.

One recent study revealed that more than half of Americans do not have enough saved for basic living expenses once they reach retirement age while the other half has saved nothing at all.

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

The Catholic Church once played a more central role in the lives of American Catholics, the study says, but now finds itself serving distinctly different groups.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

Garlow is one of a growing number of Americans who say that religion should play a greater role in politics, according to the findings of a recent study by the Pew Research Forum's Religion & Public Life Project.

Almost every conceivable facet and dimension of early American life has been analyzed, studied, celebrated, and praised in recent years.

But as the Internet and other media invade American life, our vices have also gone virtual, according to a new study.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

My findings confirm what sociologist Robert Wuthnow discovered in his study of American religious life: people divorce economics from religion.

The study, conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project, also focused on American's use of technology.

Robert Bellah and his associates throw some general light on this absence in their recent sociological study of American culture, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Harper & Row, 1985).

While historians have welcomed Appleby's nuanced study of how the War for Independence altered the lives of ordinary Americans (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans), an even broader and more appreciative audience has made David McCullough's biography of John Adams a run away best seller.

An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

Extensive studies of the content of American television, for example, have found that television programming repetitively presents a particular and consistent dramatic view of the world and life: what is good and what is bad, what has reality and what does not have reality, what power is and who holds power, how relationships should be conducted, and how one should behave in particular situations.

Budget problems faced by small churches, and even larger ones, could be alleviated if a new passion for tithing were to catch hold in church life, said Anthony Pappas, an American Baptist area minister in southeastern Massachusetts who commented in the study on Lummis's findings.

Robert Bellah «s study of the roots of American democracy led him to conclude that during the nation «s early life «the real school of republican virtue in America... was the church.»

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

A recent study of the lives of American men came to the conclusion that friendship was largely absent.

«Freedom of speech falls alongside other freedoms to live and be free from bombs falling on people's heads and to be free from occupations,» says Omid Safi, religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina, referring to American military and intelligence operations in parts of the Muslim world.

(CNN)- Faith plays a major role in many Americans» lives, affecting their outlook on morality, politics and even - according to a new study - investing.

Studies show that the Americans most obsessed with the lives of celebrities are particularly unlikely to participate in civic life, but that may be because they're the Americans who are particularly unlikely to have easy access to significant forms of political participation.

While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived at or below the poverty line.

He is a professor of African American studies at Morehouse and is a leading intellectual voice in discourse surrounding American life and politics.

The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and white Americans.

We are more mobile than ever; recent studies estimate the average American can expect to move 11.7 times in their life.

According to a 2008 study by the Pew Forum on Religious Life and Public Life, 31 % of Americans were raised Catholic, but only 24 % now describe themselves as Catholic.

Ahmad lived at a time of great religious upheaval, said Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic Studies at American University.

So we've read the studies, often written in the spirit of Tocqueville, that American conservative Christians are distinguished by their philanthropic generosity and their voluntary care giving, and their churches, at their best at least, are attentive to the whole lives of particular persons.

In a 2009 study in Journal of American College Health, B.J. Willoughby and J.S. Carroll found that «students living in co-ed housing were also more likely [than those in single - sex residences] to have more sexual partners in the last 12 months.»

This study contrasts with headlines from previous studies on religious «nones,» including a 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that found the group was the fastest growing «religious» group in America and that one in five Americans now identify with no religion.

Several books of the contextual sort also considered the suburban environment: Andrew W. Greeley, The Church and the Suburbs (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1959); Frederick A. Shippey, Protestantism in Suburban Life (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964); Gaylord Noyce, The Responsible Suburban Church (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970); W. Widick Schroeder, Victor Obenhaus, Larry Jones, and Thomas Sweetser, Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

psychiatrists, clients and others involved in psychotherapy; Madsen «attempted to understand how Americans become involved in public life»; and Sullivan studied two groups dedicated «to political organizing in bringing about social change.»

In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis's 1955 article, «American Catholics and the Intellectual Life»; the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, «The Idea of a Catholic University»; and the day Don J. Briel began the Catholic Studies Program — and the Catholic Studies movement — at the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities.

I long to see deeper studies on the Cuban American devotion to N. S. de Caridad and their Afro - Cuban sense of santeria; on the Puerto Rican devotion to San Juan Bautista and other religious practices; on the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas of Guatemala and other devotions and rituals of the various Hispanic peoples living in the United States.

The first is possible because social studies as well as literature courses must deal with religious subject matter: Islam in the Middle East, Buddhism in East Asia, religion in American life.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

During one period of his life, Nevin's dissatisfaction with «Puritan» American Protestantism, along with his extensive historical studies, led him nearly to convert to Roman Catholicism.