Scott Thumma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1567628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Thumma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Thumma |
| SIGNATURE | THUMMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9734-3517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eating Your Cake and Having it Too
Background It is typically assumed in the social scientific study of religion that individuals attend one congregation or none. As such, there is scarce research on individuals who attend more than one congregation yet doing so may affect congregational participation. Purpose This study theorizes factors affecting whether someone attends multiple congregations and how this might influence congregational volunteering and giving in the context of m…
A Portrait of the 2020 Faith Communities Today Study
This article offers an overview of the congregational landscape of the United States using the 2020 Faith Communities Today national key-informant survey. Offering representative results from 15,278 congregations in over 80 different denominations and 4 religious traditions, the article describes the characteristics of the average American congregation as well as significant variations within the results. Overall, this picture is one of diminishe…
Talking Over the Back Fence
Exploring the Dynamics and Challenges of Congregational Size
This article explores several dimensions of the current realities of size in US congregations. Drawing on the Faith Communities Today 2020 national research effort, the differences between various size groupings of congregations are explored. For each of the five size groupings, from under 50 attendees to over 1,500 worshippers, the article highlights survey results showing the benefits and challenges associated with each size cluster and implica…
What Applied Implies
In this 2018 Presidential Address to the Religious Research Association, I explore the applied religious identity of the Association. This address also addresses the manner in which individual basic research efforts could benefit from key practices of an applied research mindset. This applied identity is central to the Religious Research Association as I show from a sketch of its history and through references to previous Presidential addresses. …
Seeking to be converted
Negotiating a Religious Identity
Journal Article Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical Get access Scott Thumma Scott Thumma Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 333–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710850 Published: 01 December 1991
Negotiating a Religious Identity
Journal Article Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical Get access Scott Thumma Scott Thumma Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 333–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710850 Published: 01 December 1991
Eating Your Cake and Having it Too
Background It is typically assumed in the social scientific study of religion that individuals attend one congregation or none. As such, there is scarce research on individuals who attend more than one congregation yet doing so may affect congregational participation. Purpose This study theorizes factors affecting whether someone attends multiple congregations and how this might influence congregational volunteering and giving in the context of m…
Exploring the Dynamics and Challenges of Congregational Size
This article explores several dimensions of the current realities of size in US congregations. Drawing on the Faith Communities Today 2020 national research effort, the differences between various size groupings of congregations are explored. For each of the five size groupings, from under 50 attendees to over 1,500 worshippers, the article highlights survey results showing the benefits and challenges associated with each size cluster and implica…
Seeking to be converted
Seeking to be converted
Negotiating a Religious Identity
Journal Article Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical Get access Scott Thumma Scott Thumma Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 333–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710850 Published: 01 December 1991
What Applied Implies
In this 2018 Presidential Address to the Religious Research Association, I explore the applied religious identity of the Association. This address also addresses the manner in which individual basic research efforts could benefit from key practices of an applied research mindset. This applied identity is central to the Religious Research Association as I show from a sketch of its history and through references to previous Presidential addresses. …
A Portrait of the 2020 Faith Communities Today Study
This article offers an overview of the congregational landscape of the United States using the 2020 Faith Communities Today national key-informant survey. Offering representative results from 15,278 congregations in over 80 different denominations and 4 religious traditions, the article describes the characteristics of the average American congregation as well as significant variations within the results. Overall, this picture is one of diminishe…
Talking Over the Back Fence
Exploring the Dynamics and Challenges of Congregational Size
This article explores several dimensions of the current realities of size in US congregations. Drawing on the Faith Communities Today 2020 national research effort, the differences between various size groupings of congregations are explored. For each of the five size groupings, from under 50 attendees to over 1,500 worshippers, the article highlights survey results showing the benefits and challenges associated with each size cluster and implica…
Eating Your Cake and Having it Too
Background It is typically assumed in the social scientific study of religion that individuals attend one congregation or none. As such, there is scarce research on individuals who attend more than one congregation yet doing so may affect congregational participation. Purpose This study theorizes factors affecting whether someone attends multiple congregations and how this might influence congregational volunteering and giving in the context of m…
Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Theology (3 works)