Penny Long Marler
Biographic Data
| ID | 157234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Long Marler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny Long |
| FAMILY NAME | Marler |
| SIGNATURE | MARLER P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Samford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Back to the future: Why the Sunday school is key to denominational identity and growth
This article is an historical and sociological analysis of the rise of the Sunday school movement, the “Southern Baptization” of that movement, and its growth and subsequent decline. Two related points are central to the argument: (a) the irony of the movement’s evolution from nondenominational Protestantism to Southern Baptist denominationalism to nondenominational evangelicalism; and (b) in a context of social and economic transformations that …
After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty and Thirty‐Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion – By R. Wuthnow
Wuthnow, R. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion Princeton University Press 2007 298 pp. £17.95 (paperback ) Robert Wuthnow's current project focusing on ‘younger’ adults aged 21–45 is the second recent study to examine the religious involvement of the ‘post-baby boom’ generations in the USA. The first was Christian Smith's national study of adolescents Soul Searching: The Religious …
How Many Americans Attend Worship Each Week? An Alternative Approach to Measurement
Opinion polls indicate that over 40 percent of Americans attend worship services each week. However, attendance counts in several North American counties and Roman Catholic dioceses suggest that worship attendance may be much lower. In this article a new measurement strategy is used to estimate total weekly worship attendance. First, using a variety of resources we develop an estimate of the total number of religious congregations in the United S…
Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice
Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice, by Dean R. Hoge, William D. Dinges, Mary Johnson, S.N.D., and Juan L. Gonzales, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, 288 pp. $40.00 (Cloth), $19.00 (Paper) Get access James C. Cavendish James C. Cavendish University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 413–4…
Being Religious' or 'Being Spiritual' in America: A Zero-Sum Proposition
Recent discussions of religious attitudes and behavior tend to suggest-and in a few cases, provide evidence-that Americans are becoming 'more spiritual' and 'less religious.' What do people mean, however, when they say they are 'spiritual' or 'religious'? Do Americans see these concepts as definitionally or operationally different? If so, does that difference result in a zero-sum dynamic between them? In this article, we explore the relationship …
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the USA today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very diff…
A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine
Robin W. Roberts, J. Walter Mason, Penny L. Marler, A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 407-416
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Journal Article Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools, by Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 279 pp. $35.00 Get access Deborah Kapp Deborah Kapp McCormick Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 201–203, https://doi.org/1…
Testing the Attendance Gap in a Conservative Church
This paper examines the overreporting of attendance at a large evangelical church using a poll of church members conducted during the seven days following a specific Sunday morning worship service. It provides a direct (temporal and individual) test of the connection between self reported church attendance and actual, observed attendance. Overreporting was found for worship attendance even when the attendance rate was adjusted by removing non-wor…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
The American Ritual Tapestry: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings
Overreporting Church Attendance in America: Evidence That Demands the Same Verdict
People Nice Evidence from the National Survey of Black Americans. Social Forces 71:411-30. Groves, Robert M. and Lars E. Lyberg. 1988. An Overview of Nonresponse Issues in Telephone Surveys. Pp. 191-211 in Telephone Survey Methodology, edited by R. M. Groves, P. P. Biemer, L. E. Lyberg, J. T. Massey, W. L. Nicholls II, and J. Wakesberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Hadaway, C. Kirk, Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. What the Polls Don't…
Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain
The understanding and interpretation of the presumed "secularization" of Britain and other European nations is clouded by a lack of adequate information regarding the substance and timing of religious change. This paper represents the first systematic effort to collect and analyze existing survey data on religious belief in Britain from the late 1930s to the present. Overall, the results show an increase in general scepticism about the existence …
Response to Iannaccone: Is There a Method to This Madness
After reading Reassessing Church Growth: Statistical Pitfalls and their Consequences one is likely to conclude that past efforts to understand the correlates and causes of congregational growth were part of a conspiracy to disprove Dean Kelley's (1972) explanation of why churches grow. The only possible alternative is that past church growth research was methodologically flawed and logically inconsistent, and that these shortcomings produced an u…
The Problem with Father as Proxy: Denominational Switching and Religious Change, 1965-1988
L'A demontre les nombreux problemes logiques et interpretatifs qui se soulevent quand le sujet coupe avec la religion du pere parce qu'elle est la religion de son enfance. Utiliser un pere par procuration c'est sous-estimer la desaffiliation, c'est exagerer aussi la croissance du mouvement de la non-affiliation vers une affiliation religieuse. Alors que la preference religieuse est une forme d'identification, bien des sujets se donnent une identi…
Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries
Journal Article Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries Get access Jackson W. Carroll, Jackson W. Carroll Samford UniversityDuke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Penny Long Marler Penny Long Marler Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 1–20, https://do…
What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance
Aux Etats-Unis, les caracterisations de la vie religieuse font reference aux donnees de sondage sur la frequentation de l'eglise. Les hauts degres de participation rapportes par ces donnees suggerent que la population est exceptionnelement religieuse et tres peu affectee par les tendances a la secularisation. Cette image de vitalite contredit neanmoins d'autres evidences empiriques indiquant le declin de la force de nombreuses institutions religi…
"Toward a Typology of Protestant "Marginal Members
All in the Family: Religious Mobility in America
What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance
Aux Etats-Unis, les caracterisations de la vie religieuse font reference aux donnees de sondage sur la frequentation de l'eglise. Les hauts degres de participation rapportes par ces donnees suggerent que la population est exceptionnelement religieuse et tres peu affectee par les tendances a la secularisation. Cette image de vitalite contredit neanmoins d'autres evidences empiriques indiquant le declin de la force de nombreuses institutions religi…
Being Religious' or 'Being Spiritual' in America: A Zero-Sum Proposition
Recent discussions of religious attitudes and behavior tend to suggest-and in a few cases, provide evidence-that Americans are becoming 'more spiritual' and 'less religious.' What do people mean, however, when they say they are 'spiritual' or 'religious'? Do Americans see these concepts as definitionally or operationally different? If so, does that difference result in a zero-sum dynamic between them? In this article, we explore the relationship …
Overreporting Church Attendance in America: Evidence That Demands the Same Verdict
People Nice Evidence from the National Survey of Black Americans. Social Forces 71:411-30. Groves, Robert M. and Lars E. Lyberg. 1988. An Overview of Nonresponse Issues in Telephone Surveys. Pp. 191-211 in Telephone Survey Methodology, edited by R. M. Groves, P. P. Biemer, L. E. Lyberg, J. T. Massey, W. L. Nicholls II, and J. Wakesberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Hadaway, C. Kirk, Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. What the Polls Don't…
How Many Americans Attend Worship Each Week? An Alternative Approach to Measurement
Opinion polls indicate that over 40 percent of Americans attend worship services each week. However, attendance counts in several North American counties and Roman Catholic dioceses suggest that worship attendance may be much lower. In this article a new measurement strategy is used to estimate total weekly worship attendance. First, using a variety of resources we develop an estimate of the total number of religious congregations in the United S…
All in the Family: Religious Mobility in America
Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain
The understanding and interpretation of the presumed "secularization" of Britain and other European nations is clouded by a lack of adequate information regarding the substance and timing of religious change. This paper represents the first systematic effort to collect and analyze existing survey data on religious belief in Britain from the late 1930s to the present. Overall, the results show an increase in general scepticism about the existence …
Testing the Attendance Gap in a Conservative Church
This paper examines the overreporting of attendance at a large evangelical church using a poll of church members conducted during the seven days following a specific Sunday morning worship service. It provides a direct (temporal and individual) test of the connection between self reported church attendance and actual, observed attendance. Overreporting was found for worship attendance even when the attendance rate was adjusted by removing non-wor…
Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries
Journal Article Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries Get access Jackson W. Carroll, Jackson W. Carroll Samford UniversityDuke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Penny Long Marler Penny Long Marler Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 1–20, https://do…
A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine
Robin W. Roberts, J. Walter Mason, Penny L. Marler, A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 407-416
Response to Iannaccone: Is There a Method to This Madness
After reading Reassessing Church Growth: Statistical Pitfalls and their Consequences one is likely to conclude that past efforts to understand the correlates and causes of congregational growth were part of a conspiracy to disprove Dean Kelley's (1972) explanation of why churches grow. The only possible alternative is that past church growth research was methodologically flawed and logically inconsistent, and that these shortcomings produced an u…
The Problem with Father as Proxy: Denominational Switching and Religious Change, 1965-1988
L'A demontre les nombreux problemes logiques et interpretatifs qui se soulevent quand le sujet coupe avec la religion du pere parce qu'elle est la religion de son enfance. Utiliser un pere par procuration c'est sous-estimer la desaffiliation, c'est exagerer aussi la croissance du mouvement de la non-affiliation vers une affiliation religieuse. Alors que la preference religieuse est une forme d'identification, bien des sujets se donnent une identi…
"Toward a Typology of Protestant "Marginal Members
What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance
Aux Etats-Unis, les caracterisations de la vie religieuse font reference aux donnees de sondage sur la frequentation de l'eglise. Les hauts degres de participation rapportes par ces donnees suggerent que la population est exceptionnelement religieuse et tres peu affectee par les tendances a la secularisation. Cette image de vitalite contredit neanmoins d'autres evidences empiriques indiquant le declin de la force de nombreuses institutions religi…
"Toward a Typology of Protestant "Marginal Members
All in the Family: Religious Mobility in America
Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries
Journal Article Culture Wars? Insights from Ethnographies of Two Protestant Seminaries Get access Jackson W. Carroll, Jackson W. Carroll Samford UniversityDuke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Penny Long Marler Penny Long Marler Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 1–20, https://do…
Response to Iannaccone: Is There a Method to This Madness
After reading Reassessing Church Growth: Statistical Pitfalls and their Consequences one is likely to conclude that past efforts to understand the correlates and causes of congregational growth were part of a conspiracy to disprove Dean Kelley's (1972) explanation of why churches grow. The only possible alternative is that past church growth research was methodologically flawed and logically inconsistent, and that these shortcomings produced an u…
The Problem with Father as Proxy: Denominational Switching and Religious Change, 1965-1988
L'A demontre les nombreux problemes logiques et interpretatifs qui se soulevent quand le sujet coupe avec la religion du pere parce qu'elle est la religion de son enfance. Utiliser un pere par procuration c'est sous-estimer la desaffiliation, c'est exagerer aussi la croissance du mouvement de la non-affiliation vers une affiliation religieuse. Alors que la preference religieuse est une forme d'identification, bien des sujets se donnent une identi…
Overreporting Church Attendance in America: Evidence That Demands the Same Verdict
People Nice Evidence from the National Survey of Black Americans. Social Forces 71:411-30. Groves, Robert M. and Lars E. Lyberg. 1988. An Overview of Nonresponse Issues in Telephone Surveys. Pp. 191-211 in Telephone Survey Methodology, edited by R. M. Groves, P. P. Biemer, L. E. Lyberg, J. T. Massey, W. L. Nicholls II, and J. Wakesberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Hadaway, C. Kirk, Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. What the Polls Don't…
Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain
The understanding and interpretation of the presumed "secularization" of Britain and other European nations is clouded by a lack of adequate information regarding the substance and timing of religious change. This paper represents the first systematic effort to collect and analyze existing survey data on religious belief in Britain from the late 1930s to the present. Overall, the results show an increase in general scepticism about the existence …
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the USA today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very diff…
A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine
Robin W. Roberts, J. Walter Mason, Penny L. Marler, A True Specialist: Teaching Sociology through a Service-Learning Project Involving the Construction of a Pit Latrine, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 407-416
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Journal Article Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools, by Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 279 pp. $35.00 Get access Deborah Kapp Deborah Kapp McCormick Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 201–203, https://doi.org/1…
Testing the Attendance Gap in a Conservative Church
This paper examines the overreporting of attendance at a large evangelical church using a poll of church members conducted during the seven days following a specific Sunday morning worship service. It provides a direct (temporal and individual) test of the connection between self reported church attendance and actual, observed attendance. Overreporting was found for worship attendance even when the attendance rate was adjusted by removing non-wor…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
The American Ritual Tapestry: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings
Being Religious' or 'Being Spiritual' in America: A Zero-Sum Proposition
Recent discussions of religious attitudes and behavior tend to suggest-and in a few cases, provide evidence-that Americans are becoming 'more spiritual' and 'less religious.' What do people mean, however, when they say they are 'spiritual' or 'religious'? Do Americans see these concepts as definitionally or operationally different? If so, does that difference result in a zero-sum dynamic between them? In this article, we explore the relationship …
Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice
Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice, by Dean R. Hoge, William D. Dinges, Mary Johnson, S.N.D., and Juan L. Gonzales, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, 288 pp. $40.00 (Cloth), $19.00 (Paper) Get access James C. Cavendish James C. Cavendish University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 413–4…
How Many Americans Attend Worship Each Week? An Alternative Approach to Measurement
Opinion polls indicate that over 40 percent of Americans attend worship services each week. However, attendance counts in several North American counties and Roman Catholic dioceses suggest that worship attendance may be much lower. In this article a new measurement strategy is used to estimate total weekly worship attendance. First, using a variety of resources we develop an estimate of the total number of religious congregations in the United S…
After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty and Thirty‐Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion – By R. Wuthnow
Wuthnow, R. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion Princeton University Press 2007 298 pp. £17.95 (paperback ) Robert Wuthnow's current project focusing on ‘younger’ adults aged 21–45 is the second recent study to examine the religious involvement of the ‘post-baby boom’ generations in the USA. The first was Christian Smith's national study of adolescents Soul Searching: The Religious …
Back to the future: Why the Sunday school is key to denominational identity and growth
This article is an historical and sociological analysis of the rise of the Sunday school movement, the “Southern Baptization” of that movement, and its growth and subsequent decline. Two related points are central to the argument: (a) the irony of the movement’s evolution from nondenominational Protestantism to Southern Baptist denominationalism to nondenominational evangelicalism; and (b) in a context of social and economic transformations that …
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