Ben Nefzger

Biographic Data

ID286791
NAMEBen Nefzger
GIVEN NAMESBen
FAMILY NAMENefzger
SIGNATUREBEN NEFZGER
AFFILIATIONSAugustana College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX1

  • God, Harlem U.S.A: The Father Divine Story

    Ben Nefzger, Jill WattsARTICLESociology of Religion1994

    Ben Nefzger; God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story, by Jill Watts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, xvi + 249 pp. $30, Sociology of Re

  • Symbolic ethnicity and American Jews: The relationship of ethnic identity to behavior and group affiliation

    Open AccessP Kivisto, Ben NefzgerARTICLEThe Social Science Journal1993Cited by: 14References: 5

    Symbolic ethnicity is a variant of straight-line assimilation theory that predicts an attenuation of the connection between ethnic identity and both ethnic behavior and group affiliation, the result of persistent or heightened interest in the former and decline in the latter. This study utilizes survey data from a midwestern Jewish community to test this thesis. We do so in two stages. First, Cohen's typology of Jewish involvement is employed to …

  • Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions

    Ben Nefzger, Robert Abelman et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1991

    Journal Article Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions, edited by Robert Abelman and Stewart M. Hoover. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990, 366 pp. $52.50; $32.50 (paper) Get access Ben Nefzger Ben Nefzger Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 421–422, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710860 Published: 01 December 199…

  • Studying the Changing Conditions of Jewish Life in a Middle-Sized American City

    Ben Nefzger, P KivistoARTICLESociological Focus1990References: 2

    This article describes an applied research project that was conducted by the Augustana Research Foundation for the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities. As an example of contract research in religion, we emphasize the process of doing such a study. Quad City Jews have experienced many of the changes that Jews in other middle-sized cities in the United States have undergone. However, historical and structural conditions, which vary substantially f…

  • Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890-1906

    Ben Nefzger, Kevin J ChristianoARTICLESociological Analysis1990

  • Demo-Graphics

    Ben NefzgerARTICLETeaching Sociology1989

  • American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future

    Ben Nefzger, Wade Clark Roof et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1989

    Journal Article American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future, by Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987, xiv + 279 pp. $27 Get access Ben Nefzger Ben Nefzger Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 2, Summer 1989, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710995 Published: 01 July 1989

  • The Prophetic Clergy, Social Activism among Protestant Ministers

    Ben Nefzger, Ben D NefzgerREVIEWReview of Religious Research1976

  • The Ideal-Type: Some Conceptions and Misconceptions

    Open AccessBen NefzgerARTICLESociological Quarterly1965Cited by: 1References: 1

    MAx WEBER utilized the ideal-type in various ways. One of them was in his analysis of bureaucracy as a form of social organization. Generally, he stated that the bureaucratic type of administration is a purely technical point of view, capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational known means of carrying out imperative control over human beings.' More specifically, he stated the following cha…