David P King
Biographic Data
| ID | 177112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P King |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6725-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look
This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and secular organizations, (3) giving to religious congregations, religiously identified nonprofit organizati…
Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts
Within Western contexts, philanthropy has been conceptualized as formal and organizational, with less emphasis on its informal contours. This paper identifies social solidarity as crucial to understanding philanthropy in African contexts. The first section explores concepts of philanthropy, such as reciprocity and cooperation. Second, recognizing solidarity as a key aspect of philanthropy, we review how social solidarity has been theorized and st…
Exploring Theologies of Money: Religious Leaders' Use of Stewardship, Its Strengths, and Limitations
Questions of finance and economic models are vital for congregational leaders to consider, but they are too often overlooked in research and practice. While we argue that the explicit attention to budgets and balance sheets should be a focus of both congregational researchers and religious leaders, we would also argue that these topics are embedded in congregational life as practices and cultures of giving that are likewise rooted in theologies o…
Using Google Maps to Generate Organizational Sampling Frames
Organizational researchers use a variety of methods to obtain sampling frames. The utility of these methods, however, is constrained by access restrictions, limited coverage, prohibitive costs, and cumbersome formats. This article presents a new method for generating organizational sampling frames that is cost-effective, uses publicly available data, and can produce sampling frames for many geographic areas in the U.S. The Python-based program we…
Barriers Inhibiting Women's Path to the Pulpit and the Gender Gap in Compensation
This study examines the gender gap in Protestant churches' leadership and its connection to head clergy compensation, using the National Study of Congregations' Economic Practices (NSCEP) data. The analysis reveals that women's leadership as head clergy is most common within smaller and theologically liberal churches and during a time of declining membership. These findings imply that clergywomen face both the barrier of a glass ceiling and the d…
Politics and preaching: How Religious Elites Justify Addressing or Avoiding Political Topics
Even amidst a decline in religious affiliation, nearly half of the U.S. population still attends religious services at least once a month, and congregations remain the single largest non-profit organizational type across the nation. Therefore, congregational influence on political attitudes and behavior is a crucial line of inquiry. We analyze interviews of 94 congregational leaders to better understand why they address or avoid political issues …
Hoosier Philanthropy: A State History of Giving
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations
This study illuminates the size, scope, and impact of U.S. faith-based nonprofits in the international affairs sector. Through analysis of IRS microdata, we estimate the prevalence, total revenue, and direct charitable giving to Organizations with Religious Expression (OREs) within the International Affairs subsector ( n = 262). Our study provides new language to categorize religiously identified organizations and seeks to demonstrate the distinc…
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement
Religion has long been recognized as promoting civic engagement. Recent declines in organized religion and growing interest in spirituality raise the question of whether spirituality might also promote civic engagement. Using data from a new nationally representative survey, we assess the independent and joint influence of spirituality and religion on civic life. We find that 40% of respondents perceive spirituality as influencing their civic eng…
Faith and Money: What We Know about Congregational Finances
Scholars and religious leaders know too little about congregational finances, yet they are central to the vitality of faith communities in how they receive, manage, and spend resources. With new comprehensive data from Faith Communities Today 2020, we are able to provide the most comprehensive picture of economic practices among congregations. In interpreting these findings, we reflect upon core questions for the current and future vitality of co…
Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches
This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected publications, are dominated by Western approaches, particular attention is paid in this analysis to publications from geographies that are not from the United States or Western Europe, especially these world regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Similarly, while th…
How Does Religion Affect Giving to Outgroups and Secular Organizations? A Systematic Literature Review
Although religious giving represents the largest sector of charitable giving in the US, its overall impact on social welfare has been questioned, pointing to the possibility that the majority of funding might stay within the religious community, with little benefit to outgroups or secular charity. Despite multiple studies showing a positive relationship between religion and secular and outgroup giving, some empirical findings show a negative or n…
Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions
This paper provides a meta-analysis of the intersection of (a) religiosity and spirituality with (b) generosity, philanthropy, nonprofits, and prosociality. The study is informed by three informational sources, chronologically: (1) informational interviews with scholars and practitioners based within and studying regions outside of the U.S. and Western Europe; (2) discovery search of purposefully selected extant publications, especially focusing …
The economic practices of US congregations: A review of current research and future opportunities
Religious congregations in the US receive substantially more philanthropic contributions than any other category of organizations, yet little research has investigated how congregations receive, manage, and spend these donations. Although the economic practice of religious giving has been researched extensively, most of this research has focused on individuals or households, seeking to explain why people give to religious organizations. Relativel…
Godly Work for a Global Christianity
This chapter explores American Christians’ engagement with global Christianity through the movement of money and the institutional evolution of mission societies, faith-based humanitarianism, and markets. Missions, international development, and other mediating forms of international engagement have often served as the place for American Christians’ encounter with the world and a broader global Christianity. These institutional forms have changed…
Preaching Good News to the Poor
The chapter examines how Billy Graham’s encounters with domestic and global poverty offer a window into the evolution of Graham’s social ethic that sheds light on American evangelicals’ public engagement at home and abroad. As his public platform grew, he began to draw attention to the world’s most pressing needs. Graham’s evolving humanitarianism helped set the boundaries of a postwar American evangelicalism. As Graham came to speak of both evan…
Taking World Christianity into the Classroom: A Review Essay
Keywords world Christianity, global evangelicalism, pedagogy, Farhadian, Jacobsen, Wolffe, Hutchinson
The New Internationalists: World Vision and the Revival of American Evangelical Humanitarianism, 1950-2010
International relief and development agencies consistently rank among the largest evangelical organizations, and in recent decades, they have gained increased exposure and influence within the greater humanitarian community. World Vision, the largest evangelical agency, is also the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world. Themes of politics and culture wars have led many to scholars to categorize American evangelicals into distin…
World Vision: Religious Identity in the Discourse and Practice of Global Relief and Development
Three common perspectives regarding the role of religion in humanitarianism have led to the segregation, ignorance, or instrumentalization of religion. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) play a significant role in international development. These organizations' religious identities are not merely labels; international development stakeholders should ask how an organization is religious. This article explores the history of one influential faith-bas…
The West Looks East: The Influence of Toyohiko Kagawa on American Mainline Protestantism
Toyohiko Kagawa served as the leading Christian voice in Japan from the 1920s through the 1940s. While nationally respected throughout Japan, he also became a hero among American Protestants. Kagawa's popularity in the West rose during a time of transition for mainline Protestantism. The American mainline's optimism and dominance as the religious "establishment" began to falter. It faced both religious and economic depression, internal theologica…
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement
Religion has long been recognized as promoting civic engagement. Recent declines in organized religion and growing interest in spirituality raise the question of whether spirituality might also promote civic engagement. Using data from a new nationally representative survey, we assess the independent and joint influence of spirituality and religion on civic life. We find that 40% of respondents perceive spirituality as influencing their civic eng…
The New Internationalists: World Vision and the Revival of American Evangelical Humanitarianism, 1950-2010
International relief and development agencies consistently rank among the largest evangelical organizations, and in recent decades, they have gained increased exposure and influence within the greater humanitarian community. World Vision, the largest evangelical agency, is also the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world. Themes of politics and culture wars have led many to scholars to categorize American evangelicals into distin…
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations
This study illuminates the size, scope, and impact of U.S. faith-based nonprofits in the international affairs sector. Through analysis of IRS microdata, we estimate the prevalence, total revenue, and direct charitable giving to Organizations with Religious Expression (OREs) within the International Affairs subsector ( n = 262). Our study provides new language to categorize religiously identified organizations and seeks to demonstrate the distinc…
Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions
This paper provides a meta-analysis of the intersection of (a) religiosity and spirituality with (b) generosity, philanthropy, nonprofits, and prosociality. The study is informed by three informational sources, chronologically: (1) informational interviews with scholars and practitioners based within and studying regions outside of the U.S. and Western Europe; (2) discovery search of purposefully selected extant publications, especially focusing …
World Vision: Religious Identity in the Discourse and Practice of Global Relief and Development
Three common perspectives regarding the role of religion in humanitarianism have led to the segregation, ignorance, or instrumentalization of religion. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) play a significant role in international development. These organizations' religious identities are not merely labels; international development stakeholders should ask how an organization is religious. This article explores the history of one influential faith-bas…
The West Looks East: The Influence of Toyohiko Kagawa on American Mainline Protestantism
Toyohiko Kagawa served as the leading Christian voice in Japan from the 1920s through the 1940s. While nationally respected throughout Japan, he also became a hero among American Protestants. Kagawa's popularity in the West rose during a time of transition for mainline Protestantism. The American mainline's optimism and dominance as the religious "establishment" began to falter. It faced both religious and economic depression, internal theologica…
Barriers Inhibiting Women's Path to the Pulpit and the Gender Gap in Compensation
This study examines the gender gap in Protestant churches' leadership and its connection to head clergy compensation, using the National Study of Congregations' Economic Practices (NSCEP) data. The analysis reveals that women's leadership as head clergy is most common within smaller and theologically liberal churches and during a time of declining membership. These findings imply that clergywomen face both the barrier of a glass ceiling and the d…
Politics and preaching: How Religious Elites Justify Addressing or Avoiding Political Topics
Even amidst a decline in religious affiliation, nearly half of the U.S. population still attends religious services at least once a month, and congregations remain the single largest non-profit organizational type across the nation. Therefore, congregational influence on political attitudes and behavior is a crucial line of inquiry. We analyze interviews of 94 congregational leaders to better understand why they address or avoid political issues …
World Vision: Religious Identity in the Discourse and Practice of Global Relief and Development
Three common perspectives regarding the role of religion in humanitarianism have led to the segregation, ignorance, or instrumentalization of religion. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) play a significant role in international development. These organizations' religious identities are not merely labels; international development stakeholders should ask how an organization is religious. This article explores the history of one influential faith-bas…
The West Looks East: The Influence of Toyohiko Kagawa on American Mainline Protestantism
Toyohiko Kagawa served as the leading Christian voice in Japan from the 1920s through the 1940s. While nationally respected throughout Japan, he also became a hero among American Protestants. Kagawa's popularity in the West rose during a time of transition for mainline Protestantism. The American mainline's optimism and dominance as the religious "establishment" began to falter. It faced both religious and economic depression, internal theologica…
The New Internationalists: World Vision and the Revival of American Evangelical Humanitarianism, 1950-2010
International relief and development agencies consistently rank among the largest evangelical organizations, and in recent decades, they have gained increased exposure and influence within the greater humanitarian community. World Vision, the largest evangelical agency, is also the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world. Themes of politics and culture wars have led many to scholars to categorize American evangelicals into distin…
Taking World Christianity into the Classroom: A Review Essay
Keywords world Christianity, global evangelicalism, pedagogy, Farhadian, Jacobsen, Wolffe, Hutchinson
Godly Work for a Global Christianity
This chapter explores American Christians’ engagement with global Christianity through the movement of money and the institutional evolution of mission societies, faith-based humanitarianism, and markets. Missions, international development, and other mediating forms of international engagement have often served as the place for American Christians’ encounter with the world and a broader global Christianity. These institutional forms have changed…
Preaching Good News to the Poor
The chapter examines how Billy Graham’s encounters with domestic and global poverty offer a window into the evolution of Graham’s social ethic that sheds light on American evangelicals’ public engagement at home and abroad. As his public platform grew, he began to draw attention to the world’s most pressing needs. Graham’s evolving humanitarianism helped set the boundaries of a postwar American evangelicalism. As Graham came to speak of both evan…
The economic practices of US congregations: A review of current research and future opportunities
Religious congregations in the US receive substantially more philanthropic contributions than any other category of organizations, yet little research has investigated how congregations receive, manage, and spend these donations. Although the economic practice of religious giving has been researched extensively, most of this research has focused on individuals or households, seeking to explain why people give to religious organizations. Relativel…
Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches
This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected publications, are dominated by Western approaches, particular attention is paid in this analysis to publications from geographies that are not from the United States or Western Europe, especially these world regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Similarly, while th…
How Does Religion Affect Giving to Outgroups and Secular Organizations? A Systematic Literature Review
Although religious giving represents the largest sector of charitable giving in the US, its overall impact on social welfare has been questioned, pointing to the possibility that the majority of funding might stay within the religious community, with little benefit to outgroups or secular charity. Despite multiple studies showing a positive relationship between religion and secular and outgroup giving, some empirical findings show a negative or n…
Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions
This paper provides a meta-analysis of the intersection of (a) religiosity and spirituality with (b) generosity, philanthropy, nonprofits, and prosociality. The study is informed by three informational sources, chronologically: (1) informational interviews with scholars and practitioners based within and studying regions outside of the U.S. and Western Europe; (2) discovery search of purposefully selected extant publications, especially focusing …
Faith and Money: What We Know about Congregational Finances
Scholars and religious leaders know too little about congregational finances, yet they are central to the vitality of faith communities in how they receive, manage, and spend resources. With new comprehensive data from Faith Communities Today 2020, we are able to provide the most comprehensive picture of economic practices among congregations. In interpreting these findings, we reflect upon core questions for the current and future vitality of co…
Hoosier Philanthropy: A State History of Giving
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations
This study illuminates the size, scope, and impact of U.S. faith-based nonprofits in the international affairs sector. Through analysis of IRS microdata, we estimate the prevalence, total revenue, and direct charitable giving to Organizations with Religious Expression (OREs) within the International Affairs subsector ( n = 262). Our study provides new language to categorize religiously identified organizations and seeks to demonstrate the distinc…
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement
Religion has long been recognized as promoting civic engagement. Recent declines in organized religion and growing interest in spirituality raise the question of whether spirituality might also promote civic engagement. Using data from a new nationally representative survey, we assess the independent and joint influence of spirituality and religion on civic life. We find that 40% of respondents perceive spirituality as influencing their civic eng…
Politics and preaching: How Religious Elites Justify Addressing or Avoiding Political Topics
Even amidst a decline in religious affiliation, nearly half of the U.S. population still attends religious services at least once a month, and congregations remain the single largest non-profit organizational type across the nation. Therefore, congregational influence on political attitudes and behavior is a crucial line of inquiry. We analyze interviews of 94 congregational leaders to better understand why they address or avoid political issues …
Social Solidarity & Philanthropy in African Contexts
Within Western contexts, philanthropy has been conceptualized as formal and organizational, with less emphasis on its informal contours. This paper identifies social solidarity as crucial to understanding philanthropy in African contexts. The first section explores concepts of philanthropy, such as reciprocity and cooperation. Second, recognizing solidarity as a key aspect of philanthropy, we review how social solidarity has been theorized and st…
Exploring Theologies of Money: Religious Leaders' Use of Stewardship, Its Strengths, and Limitations
Questions of finance and economic models are vital for congregational leaders to consider, but they are too often overlooked in research and practice. While we argue that the explicit attention to budgets and balance sheets should be a focus of both congregational researchers and religious leaders, we would also argue that these topics are embedded in congregational life as practices and cultures of giving that are likewise rooted in theologies o…
Using Google Maps to Generate Organizational Sampling Frames
Organizational researchers use a variety of methods to obtain sampling frames. The utility of these methods, however, is constrained by access restrictions, limited coverage, prohibitive costs, and cumbersome formats. This article presents a new method for generating organizational sampling frames that is cost-effective, uses publicly available data, and can produce sampling frames for many geographic areas in the U.S. The Python-based program we…
Barriers Inhibiting Women's Path to the Pulpit and the Gender Gap in Compensation
This study examines the gender gap in Protestant churches' leadership and its connection to head clergy compensation, using the National Study of Congregations' Economic Practices (NSCEP) data. The analysis reveals that women's leadership as head clergy is most common within smaller and theologically liberal churches and during a time of declining membership. These findings imply that clergywomen face both the barrier of a glass ceiling and the d…
A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look
This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and secular organizations, (3) giving to religious congregations, religiously identified nonprofit organizati…
Political science (16 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Theology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works)