Helen Rose Ebaugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 132145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Rose Ebaugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebaugh |
| SIGNATURE | EBAUGH H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 603 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States
Religion is a major social institution in the United States. While the scientific community has experienced a resurgence in the idea that there are important linkages between religion and family life and religion and health outcomes, this area of study is still in its early stages of development, scattered across multiple disciplines, and of uneven quality. To date, no book has featured both reviews of the literature and new empirical findings th…
Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service
Contents: Preface, Helen Rose Ebaugh Introduction to religious and global transnational service movements, Stephen M. Cherry The Redeemed Christian Church of God: African Pentecostalism, Afe Adogame The Gulen Movement: Sunni Islam, Helen Rose Ebaugh Soka Gakkai International: Nichiren Japanese Buddhism, Daniel A. Metraux BAPS Swaminarayan Community: Hinduism, Arun Brahmbhatt The Gawad Kalinga Movement: charismatic Catholicism, Stephen M. Cherry A…
Out of the Cloister: A Study of Organizational Dilemmas
Religion and Assimilation Among Turkish Muslim Immigrants: Comparing Practicing and Non-Practicing Muslims
Religion in Global Perspective: SSSR Presidential Panel
Global processes present a challenge for scholarly work on religion, necessitating new concepts, theoretical and analytical models, intellectual sensitivity, and imagination. This calls for focusing on (1) cross-border interpenetration of religious organizations, beliefs, and practices; (2) variations in the potential for religious beliefs and institutions to be transported; and (3) the use of multiple frames of reference to examine the dispersio…
Transnationality And Religion In Immigrant Congregations The Global Impact
Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities
Collaborations with faith‐based social service coalitions
Based on the first national survey of faith‐based social service coalitions in the United States, this article presents data on the degree to which these nonprofit organizations collaborate with other specific organizational types, as well as the range and intensity of these collaborations. In general, faith‐based coalitions tend to collaborate most frequently with other faith‐based agencies, a pattern especially characteristic of the more religi…
Religion, Politics, and Family Values: Is There a Value Crisis in America
are equally modern. Religious organiza tions, historically associated with family life, are the natural venues for construct ing visions of the good family, for practi cal programs of help and support, for conversations with like-minded men and women confronting similar dilemmas, for places to recharge and renew one's own faith, and for support in attempting to re sist the encroachment of paid work on family life. (P. 160
Where's the Faith in Faith-based Organizations? Measures and Correlates of Religiosity in Faith-based Social Service Coalitions
Organizational religiosity is analyzed with data from a national survey of faith-based social service coalitions (N = 656). Twenty-one items related to religious practices within these organizations result in three distinct factors: service religiosity, staff religiosity and organizational religiosity scales. Self-defined faith-based coalitions vary widely on all three. OLS analysis regressing 12 coalition attributes on the three scales demonstra…
Funding Good Works: Funding Sources of Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions
Data from the first national study of faith-based social service coalitions ( n = 656) are used to achieve three goals. First, the authors describe their myriad funding sources. Second, they discuss their attitudes toward three major ones: government, foundations, and congregations. Third, they analyze organizational characteristics that correlate with funding sources. Given a paucity of empirical literature on faith-based agencies, the authors d…
Faith‐Based Social Service Organizations and Government Funding: Data from a National Survey
Objective. The objective of the research reported in this article is to test four hypotheses concerning government funding among faith‐based social service coalitions: that it is positively related to size and organizational professionalism; positively related to attitudes toward government funding; positively related to social activism; and negatively related to organizational religiosity. Method. Our method is the application of OLS and probit …
Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions
Over the past twenty years, religion as a predictor of social behaviors has been increasingly documented in social arenas. Traditional relationships between religion and family, voting patterns, race and education have been well noted. More recently, studies show the closer relationship with health behaviors, gender scripts, patterns of crime and deviance, military rituals, sports, legal decisions, life course behaviors and religious patterns amo…
The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates
Journal Article The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates, Sajida Sultana Alvi, Homa Hoodfar, and Sheila McDonough (eds). Toronto: Women's Press, 2003, 300pp.; $29.95 CAD (paper) Get access Helen Rose Ebaugh Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153086 Published: 01 J…
Religion across Borders: Transnational Religious Ties
Religion and the New Immigrants
Changes in U.S. immigration laws in the past four decades have had far-reaching consequences for American religion. Even though the majority of the new immigrants are Christian (Warner and Wittner 1998; Ebaugh and Chafetz 2000b), the practices, symbols, languages, sounds, and smells that accompany the ethnically and racially diverse forms of practicing Christianity, brought by immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Philippines, China, …
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
Calling upon the Sacred: Migrants’ Use of Religion in the Migration Process
The role of religion in the stages of the migration process has been overlooked by both immigration and sociology of religion scholars. This article draws on the migratory and religious history of a transnational Maya community with members in the western highlands of Guatemala and Houston, Texas. Drawing on field research of Mayas in both the sending and receiving areas, we show how migrants use religion in the following stages of the migration …
Where's the Religion? Distinguishing Faith-Based from Secular Social Service Agencies
The charitable choice provision and President Bush's proposed Faith-Based and Community Initiative have spurred debates regarding government support of faith-based social service programs and their effectiveness. To address the issue of relative effectiveness, the logically prior question of what constitutes a faith-based agency and how they differ from secular providers must be answered. Utilizing data from a mailed survey, this study compares t…
Faith-Based Coalitions, Social Services, and Government Funding
Both the charitable choice provision. Section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and President Bush's recent Faith-Based and Community Initiative were designed to encourage the increased participation of faith-based organizations as government supported social service providers. This article examines 14 faith-based coalitions in Harris County, Texas, and their response to accepting government monie…
Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations
Journal Article Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations, Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet Saltzman Chafetz (eds.). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000, 492 pp. $69.00 (cloth) Get access Michael Wilkinson Michael Wilkinson Nazarene University CollegeCalgary AB Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Fall 2002, Pages 393–394, h…
Presidential Address 2001: Return of the Sacred: Reintegrating Religion in the Social Sciences
Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications
Immigrant religious communities in the United States are undergoing profound transformations. Three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: (I) adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, (2) returning to theological foundations, and (3) reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples. These changes support the " new paradigm" in the soc…
The Transnational Villagers
Religion and Ethnicity Among New Immigrants: The Impact of Majority/Minority Status in Home and Host Countries
Research shows that religion continues to be an important identity marker for new immigrants in the United States. However, immigrant groups differ in the ways they integrate religious and ethnic identities and the emphasis they place on each. In this paper, we argue that majority or minority status of their religious affiliation in the home and host countries is an important, but overlooked, factor in understanding strategies concerning religiou…
Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications
Immigrant religious communities in the United States are undergoing profound transformations. Three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: (I) adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, (2) returning to theological foundations, and (3) reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples. These changes support the " new paradigm" in the soc…
Fictive Kin as Social Capital in New Immigrant Communities
Fictive kin, defined as family-type relationships, based not on blood or marriage but rather on religious rituals or close friendship ties, constitutes a type of social capital that many immigrant groups bring with them and that facilitates their incorporation into the host society. We describe three types of fictive kin systems in different immigrant populations and argue that their functions are similar across various ethnic groups and types of…
Calling upon the Sacred: Migrants’ Use of Religion in the Migration Process
The role of religion in the stages of the migration process has been overlooked by both immigration and sociology of religion scholars. This article draws on the migratory and religious history of a transnational Maya community with members in the western highlands of Guatemala and Houston, Texas. Drawing on field research of Mayas in both the sending and receiving areas, we show how migrants use religion in the following stages of the migration …
Religion and Ethnicity Among New Immigrants: The Impact of Majority/Minority Status in Home and Host Countries
Research shows that religion continues to be an important identity marker for new immigrants in the United States. However, immigrant groups differ in the ways they integrate religious and ethnic identities and the emphasis they place on each. In this paper, we argue that majority or minority status of their religious affiliation in the home and host countries is an important, but overlooked, factor in understanding strategies concerning religiou…
Structural Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations
In this paper we show that immigrant religious institutions tend to assume many elements of a congregational structure and a community center model of functioning, characteristics usually not found in their countries of origin. Based on data from the Religion, Ethnicity, New Immigrants Research (RENIR) project in Houston, Texas, we found, however, that the two dimensions are distinct and largely unrelated to one another. While each serves as a ve…
Where's the Religion? Distinguishing Faith-Based from Secular Social Service Agencies
The charitable choice provision and President Bush's proposed Faith-Based and Community Initiative have spurred debates regarding government support of faith-based social service programs and their effectiveness. To address the issue of relative effectiveness, the logically prior question of what constitutes a faith-based agency and how they differ from secular providers must be answered. Utilizing data from a mailed survey, this study compares t…
Agents for Cultural Reproduction and Structural Change: The Ironic Role of Women in Immigrant Religious Institutions
Journal Article Agents for Cultural Reproduction and Structural Change: The Ironic Role of Women in Immigrant Religious Institutions Get access Helen Rose Ebaugh, Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Direct correspondence to Helen Rose Ebaugh, Department of Sociology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3474. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Janet Saltzman Chafetz Janet Saltzm…
Dilemmas of Language in Immigrant Congregations: The Tie That Binds or the Tower of Babel
Helen Rose Ebaugh, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Dilemmas of Language in Immigrant Congregations: The Tie That Binds or the Tower of Babel?, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2000), pp. 432-452
Faith-Based Coalitions, Social Services, and Government Funding
Both the charitable choice provision. Section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and President Bush's recent Faith-Based and Community Initiative were designed to encourage the increased participation of faith-based organizations as government supported social service providers. This article examines 14 faith-based coalitions in Harris County, Texas, and their response to accepting government monie…
Presidential Address 2001: Return of the Sacred: Reintegrating Religion in the Social Sciences
The Structure and Functions of Cell Group Ministry in a Korean Christian Church
Victoria Hyonchu Kwon, Helen Rose Ebaugh, Jacqueline Hagan, The Structure and Functions of Cell Group Ministry in a Korean Christian Church, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Jun., 1997), pp. 247-256
The Growth and Decline of the Population of Catholic Nuns Cross-Nationally, 1960-1990: A Case of Secularization as Social Structural Change
Helen Rose Ebaugh, Jon Lorence, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, The Growth and Decline of the Population of Catholic Nuns Cross-Nationally, 1960-1990: A Case of Secularization as Social Structural Change, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jun., 1996), pp. 171-183
Where's the Faith in Faith-based Organizations? Measures and Correlates of Religiosity in Faith-based Social Service Coalitions
Organizational religiosity is analyzed with data from a national survey of faith-based social service coalitions (N = 656). Twenty-one items related to religious practices within these organizations result in three distinct factors: service religiosity, staff religiosity and organizational religiosity scales. Self-defined faith-based coalitions vary widely on all three. OLS analysis regressing 12 coalition attributes on the three scales demonstra…
The Growth and Decline of Catholic Religious Orders of Women Worldwide: The Impact of Women's Opportunity Structures
While membership in Catholic religious orders of women in the United States is declining, demographic data on religious orders worlwide show that growth and decline patterns vary significantly by continent. The data presented in this research note demonstrate a positive relationship between female opportunity in society and the decline of female religious orders, thereby supporting the argument that religious orders serve as avenues of social mob…
The Social Ecology of Residential Pattern and Memberships In Immigrant Churches
In this paper, we utilize GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping data to locate eleven immigrant congregations and the residential addresses of their members in Houston, Texas. Combining this information with ethnographic data allows us to understand how ecological variables impact organizationalcharacteristics of religious institutions. Specifically, we combine GIS and ethnographic data on immigrant congregations in Houston, Texas, to analy…
Shifts in Abortion Attitudes: 1972-1978
Utilizing data from the National Opinion Research Centers General Social Survey 1972-78 trends in attitudes toward abortion on the part of the U.S. population are analyzed with emphasis on a comparison of attitudes before and after the 1973 Supreme Court Decisions. Comparisons are also made with findings from the 1960s regarding abortion attitudes. It is shown that while there was increasing liberalization of attitudes during the 60s and early 70…
Toxic Waste Siting and Community Resistance: How Cooptation of Local Citizen Opposition Failed
Cooptation is used as a conceptual framework for analyzing a case of environmental conflict over a proposed toxic waste site that ended with allegations of betrayal aimed at community leaders who participated in structured negotiations with a waste disposal company. Though the negotiations committee challenging the waste company's proposal was stacked with veteran environmental activists, evidence suggests that they were effectively coopted. Howe…
Faith‐Based Social Service Organizations and Government Funding: Data from a National Survey
Objective. The objective of the research reported in this article is to test four hypotheses concerning government funding among faith‐based social service coalitions: that it is positively related to size and organizational professionalism; positively related to attitudes toward government funding; positively related to social activism; and negatively related to organizational religiosity. Method. Our method is the application of OLS and probit …
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
Religion across Borders: Transnational Religious Ties
Patriarchal Bargains and Latent Avenues of Social Mobility: Nuns in the Roman Catholic Church
Despite the classic patriarchy of the Roman Catholic church, American Catholic nuns entered into patriarchal bargains that latently gained them access to resources and status within the system. By means of educational advancement and professional careers, encouraged by the male hierarchy as necessary to performing the works of the church, nuns gained both informal power in the system and an awareness of their disadvantaged position. This article …
Ideology and Recruitment in Religious Groups
Religion and Assimilation Among Turkish Muslim Immigrants: Comparing Practicing and Non-Practicing Muslims
Religion in Global Perspective: SSSR Presidential Panel
Global processes present a challenge for scholarly work on religion, necessitating new concepts, theoretical and analytical models, intellectual sensitivity, and imagination. This calls for focusing on (1) cross-border interpenetration of religious organizations, beliefs, and practices; (2) variations in the potential for religious beliefs and institutions to be transported; and (3) the use of multiple frames of reference to examine the dispersio…
Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter
Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh, Kathe Richman, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter?, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 19-31
Out of the Cloister
Journal Article Out of the Cloister by Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1977, 143 pp. $9.95 Get access M. Alice Kroliczak M. Alice Kroliczak The Catholic University of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1978, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710223 Published: 01 July 1978
Education and the Exodus from Convents
Roman Catholic religious orders of women have been losing a significant portion of their membership. A national survey of orders shows that women with different levels of education are likely to leave different kinds of orders. The effects of change in order governance, size of order and educational level of order are shown to differentially predict the rates of leaving of women with and without graduate education. The differences in rates of lea…
Out of the Cloister
Out of the Cloister: A Study of Organizational Dilemmas
A former nun examines how contact with the larger society has affected American religious orders, with particular focus on the relationship between organizational change and membership loss
Church Attendance and Attitudes toward Abortion: Differentials in Liberal and Conservative Churches
Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh, C. Allen Haney, Church Attendance and Attitudes toward Abortion: Differentials in Liberal and Conservative Churches, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 407-413
Out of the Cloister: A Study of Organizational Dilemmas
The American Catholic: A Social Portrait
Ex-Nuns: A Study of Emergent Role Passage
Journal Article Ex-Nuns: A Study of Emergent Role Passage, by Lucinda San Giovanni. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1978, 184 pp. $14.95 Get access Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1979, Pages 372–373, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709968 Published: 01 December 1979
A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism
Salvation and Protest: Studies of Social and Religious Movements
Shifts in Abortion Attitudes: 1972-1978
Utilizing data from the National Opinion Research Centers General Social Survey 1972-78 trends in attitudes toward abortion on the part of the U.S. population are analyzed with emphasis on a comparison of attitudes before and after the 1973 Supreme Court Decisions. Comparisons are also made with findings from the 1960s regarding abortion attitudes. It is shown that while there was increasing liberalization of attitudes during the 60s and early 70…
Leadership in Voluntary Organizations: The Controversy Over Social Action in Protestant Churches
Leadership in Voluntary Organizations is the latest effort by Wood in his continuing study of how the political economy of religious organizations affects their involvement in social action. This work, which supplements his earlier contributions, closely examines the value conflicts that exist at the local church level and explores the mechanisms by which organizations take action, despite those conflicts. He focuses on the that comes to be assoc…
Abortion Politics: Private Morality and Public Policy
Growing Conservatism in the United States: An Examination of Trends in Political Opinion between 1972 and 1980
In order to determine the extent to which the widespread perception of growing American conservativism is accurate, 36 NORC opinion items were examined in each survey year they appear from 1972 to 1980. Twenty-nine of these items factored on three dimensions: The Civil Liberties, Abortion, and Economic scales. A conservative trend was found only in the case of the Economic scale, and it peaked in 1977, subsequently remaining unchanged. Multiple r…
Ideology and Recruitment in Religious Groups
Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter
Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh, Kathe Richman, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter?, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 19-31
Dimensions of Religiosity
Women Clergy: Breaking through Gender Barriers
Catholic Sisters in Transition: From the 1960s to the 1980s
Journal Article Catholic Sisters in Transition: From the 1960s to the 1980s, by Marie Augusta Neal. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1984, 173 pp. $7.95 Get access Helen Rose Ebaugh Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 48, Issue 3, Fall 1987, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711532 Published: 01 October 1987
Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit
The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
Adaptations of Religious Organizations to Modernity
American Catholic Laity in a Changing Church
From Nuns to Sisters: An Expanding Vocation
Becoming An Ex: The Process of Role Exit
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