Joseph Roso
Biographic Data
| ID | 291997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Roso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Roso |
| SIGNATURE | ROSO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9496-7364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Xenophobic and Islamophobic Rhetoric among Evangelical Opinion Leaders in the Age of Trump
Filled with anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rhetoric and buoyed by overwhelming support from white evangelicals, Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency shocked the world. Much media coverage and scholarship on Trump’s evangelical support implicitly bought into his populist myth of representing the “legitimate” people who ultimately forced the evangelical elite to come around to their point of view. However, little systematic research has been…
Priestly Politics: Faith Formation and Political Ideology Among Catholic Clergy
Mental Health and Illness Perceptions and Experiences in Canadian Christian Congregations
Few sociological studies have explored mental health and Christian congregations. Such research is absent in Canada. Using questionnaire data with 969 Christian congregants and leaders across theological traditions in Canada, this study examines how mental health is normalized or stigmatized in Canadian congregations. We draw from symbolic interactionist theory to argue that the narratives that congregations use and the resources they draw upon t…
Clergy Political Actions and Agendas: New Findings from the National Survey of Religious Leaders
We use the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) to extend prior research on clergy's political activism and agendas. We find that christian clergy engage in political cue giving at similar rates across religious traditions, though evangelical clergy are less likely than other clergy to engage in direct action. Regarding issue priorities, evangelical clergy focus almost exclusively on a moral reform agenda, with a particular focus on aborti…
Which U.S. Congregational Leaders Also Work as Chaplains? A National Overview
Historically, congregational leaders did the work of chaplaincy. In the past century, the professions have diverged and chaplaincy has diversified in form and function. We ask which congregational leaders currently also serve as chaplains to identify the extent of overlap between these two types of religious leaders in the contemporary United States. We analyze data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL), a nationally representative…
The Uses of Technology in Twenty-First Century Congregational Worship: A Report from the National Congregations Study
Some of my favorite stories are time travel stories. The kind of stories where a character goes on a near-lightspeed interstellar odyssey only to return to a home where time has been advancing much
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020
We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with the 2018 General Social Survey, to examine the extent to which clergy are politically aligned with people in their congregations. Two assessments of alignment—clergy reports of how their political views compare to the political views held by most people in their congregations, and comparisons between clergy and lay voting preferences in …
Streamable Services: Affinities for Streaming in Pre-Pandemic Congregational Worship
Following the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many congregational leaders had to scramble to set up streaming or recording systems in order to continue their worship services without putting congregants at risk, but some congregations had already set up such systems in the years leading up to the pandemic. Previous research has found that these capabilities were not evenly distributed throughout the population of congregations, but this work has…
The Churches They Are a Changin: Processes of Change in Worship Services
One of the most significant recent changes in American religious congregations is the shift toward more enthusiastic worship practices. Despite how clear and significant this trend is, the processes by which worship services have become more enthusiastic remain unclear. I address this question using linear decomposition techniques with data from the National Congregations Study-a nationally representative repeated cross-sectional survey of Americ…
Religious Congregations' Technological and Financial Capacities on the Eve of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically upended religious life and placed significant strain on religious congregations. However, the effects of the pandemic were likely not felt evenly across the religious landscape. Purpose We used data from the fourth wave of the National Congregations Study, gathered on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic in 2018-19, to identify the kinds of congregations that may have been especially vulnerable to the …
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process
The National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) is a new survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,600 clergy from across the religious spectrum. Conducted in 2019-2020, the NSRL contains a wealth of information about congregations' religious leaders and provides a rich new resource for answering a wide range of questions about clergy who serve congregations. We describe NSRL methods so that analysts will be equipped to use this complex d…
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study
The fourth wave of the National Congregations Study (NCS-IV) was conducted in 2018-2019 with a nationally representative sample of congregations from across the religious spectrum. The NCS-IV included a fresh cross-section of congregations generated in conjunction with the 2018 General Social Survey and a panel of congregations that participated in the third NCS wave. Data were collected via a 65-minute interview with one key informant from 1,262…
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations
Worship is the core activity of American congregations and the primary way people experience religion collectively in the United States. We use data from the National Congregations Study (NCS), notably including data from the fourth wave, collected in 2018-19, to examine two key trends in worship practices among American religious congregations. First, the trend toward more informal and enthusiastic worship identified in earlier NCS surveys conti…
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study
The fourth wave of the National Congregations Study (NCS-IV) was conducted in 2018-2019 with a nationally representative sample of congregations from across the religious spectrum. The NCS-IV included a fresh cross-section of congregations generated in conjunction with the 2018 General Social Survey and a panel of congregations that participated in the third NCS wave. Data were collected via a 65-minute interview with one key informant from 1,262…
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process
The National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) is a new survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,600 clergy from across the religious spectrum. Conducted in 2019-2020, the NSRL contains a wealth of information about congregations' religious leaders and provides a rich new resource for answering a wide range of questions about clergy who serve congregations. We describe NSRL methods so that analysts will be equipped to use this complex d…
Religious Congregations' Technological and Financial Capacities on the Eve of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically upended religious life and placed significant strain on religious congregations. However, the effects of the pandemic were likely not felt evenly across the religious landscape. Purpose We used data from the fourth wave of the National Congregations Study, gathered on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic in 2018-19, to identify the kinds of congregations that may have been especially vulnerable to the …
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations
Worship is the core activity of American congregations and the primary way people experience religion collectively in the United States. We use data from the National Congregations Study (NCS), notably including data from the fourth wave, collected in 2018-19, to examine two key trends in worship practices among American religious congregations. First, the trend toward more informal and enthusiastic worship identified in earlier NCS surveys conti…
Clergy Political Actions and Agendas: New Findings from the National Survey of Religious Leaders
We use the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) to extend prior research on clergy's political activism and agendas. We find that christian clergy engage in political cue giving at similar rates across religious traditions, though evangelical clergy are less likely than other clergy to engage in direct action. Regarding issue priorities, evangelical clergy focus almost exclusively on a moral reform agenda, with a particular focus on aborti…
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020
We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with the 2018 General Social Survey, to examine the extent to which clergy are politically aligned with people in their congregations. Two assessments of alignment—clergy reports of how their political views compare to the political views held by most people in their congregations, and comparisons between clergy and lay voting preferences in …
The Churches They Are a Changin: Processes of Change in Worship Services
One of the most significant recent changes in American religious congregations is the shift toward more enthusiastic worship practices. Despite how clear and significant this trend is, the processes by which worship services have become more enthusiastic remain unclear. I address this question using linear decomposition techniques with data from the National Congregations Study-a nationally representative repeated cross-sectional survey of Americ…
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study
The fourth wave of the National Congregations Study (NCS-IV) was conducted in 2018-2019 with a nationally representative sample of congregations from across the religious spectrum. The NCS-IV included a fresh cross-section of congregations generated in conjunction with the 2018 General Social Survey and a panel of congregations that participated in the third NCS wave. Data were collected via a 65-minute interview with one key informant from 1,262…
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations
Worship is the core activity of American congregations and the primary way people experience religion collectively in the United States. We use data from the National Congregations Study (NCS), notably including data from the fourth wave, collected in 2018-19, to examine two key trends in worship practices among American religious congregations. First, the trend toward more informal and enthusiastic worship identified in earlier NCS surveys conti…
Religious Congregations' Technological and Financial Capacities on the Eve of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically upended religious life and placed significant strain on religious congregations. However, the effects of the pandemic were likely not felt evenly across the religious landscape. Purpose We used data from the fourth wave of the National Congregations Study, gathered on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic in 2018-19, to identify the kinds of congregations that may have been especially vulnerable to the …
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process
The National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) is a new survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,600 clergy from across the religious spectrum. Conducted in 2019-2020, the NSRL contains a wealth of information about congregations' religious leaders and provides a rich new resource for answering a wide range of questions about clergy who serve congregations. We describe NSRL methods so that analysts will be equipped to use this complex d…
The Uses of Technology in Twenty-First Century Congregational Worship: A Report from the National Congregations Study
Some of my favorite stories are time travel stories. The kind of stories where a character goes on a near-lightspeed interstellar odyssey only to return to a home where time has been advancing much
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020
We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with the 2018 General Social Survey, to examine the extent to which clergy are politically aligned with people in their congregations. Two assessments of alignment—clergy reports of how their political views compare to the political views held by most people in their congregations, and comparisons between clergy and lay voting preferences in …
Streamable Services: Affinities for Streaming in Pre-Pandemic Congregational Worship
Following the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many congregational leaders had to scramble to set up streaming or recording systems in order to continue their worship services without putting congregants at risk, but some congregations had already set up such systems in the years leading up to the pandemic. Previous research has found that these capabilities were not evenly distributed throughout the population of congregations, but this work has…
The Churches They Are a Changin: Processes of Change in Worship Services
One of the most significant recent changes in American religious congregations is the shift toward more enthusiastic worship practices. Despite how clear and significant this trend is, the processes by which worship services have become more enthusiastic remain unclear. I address this question using linear decomposition techniques with data from the National Congregations Study-a nationally representative repeated cross-sectional survey of Americ…
Clergy Political Actions and Agendas: New Findings from the National Survey of Religious Leaders
We use the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) to extend prior research on clergy's political activism and agendas. We find that christian clergy engage in political cue giving at similar rates across religious traditions, though evangelical clergy are less likely than other clergy to engage in direct action. Regarding issue priorities, evangelical clergy focus almost exclusively on a moral reform agenda, with a particular focus on aborti…
Which U.S. Congregational Leaders Also Work as Chaplains? A National Overview
Historically, congregational leaders did the work of chaplaincy. In the past century, the professions have diverged and chaplaincy has diversified in form and function. We ask which congregational leaders currently also serve as chaplains to identify the extent of overlap between these two types of religious leaders in the contemporary United States. We analyze data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL), a nationally representative…
Xenophobic and Islamophobic Rhetoric among Evangelical Opinion Leaders in the Age of Trump
Filled with anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rhetoric and buoyed by overwhelming support from white evangelicals, Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency shocked the world. Much media coverage and scholarship on Trump’s evangelical support implicitly bought into his populist myth of representing the “legitimate” people who ultimately forced the evangelical elite to come around to their point of view. However, little systematic research has been…
Priestly Politics: Faith Formation and Political Ideology Among Catholic Clergy
Mental Health and Illness Perceptions and Experiences in Canadian Christian Congregations
Few sociological studies have explored mental health and Christian congregations. Such research is absent in Canada. Using questionnaire data with 969 Christian congregants and leaders across theological traditions in Canada, this study examines how mental health is normalized or stigmatized in Canadian congregations. We draw from symbolic interactionist theory to argue that the narratives that congregations use and the resources they draw upon t…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · Worship (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works)