Wade Clark Roof
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wade Clark Roof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wade Clark |
| FAMILY NAME | Roof |
| SIGNATURE | ROOF W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 114 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 112 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
© 1995 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. Before discussing certain trends in church involvement and religiosity in Belgium, there are certain particular characteristics of the Belgian religious scene which should be taken into account
Christianity in the English-Speaking West
Planejamento de pesquisas
Tradução do Capítulo 1.5 do livro The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, organizado por Michael Stausberg e Steven Engler. Tradução gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis, proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society: Remaking Our Lives
Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home, caring for children. Today, churches and synagogues are beginning to adapt to the reality of the American family: dual-career marriages, high levels of divorce, interfaith marriages, partnerships that may not be marriages. Religious organizations must serve families that don't fall into the Ozzie and Harriet mold. The…
Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America's Majority Faith
The “mainline” of Christianity has obviously changed considerably over the past two centuries. The so-called seven sisters of American Protestantism—the Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, United Methodists, Episcopalians, American Baptists, and Disciples of Christ—who once enjoyed a central role within American culture, hardly can claim the same today; indeed, their privileged position has been in decline for some time, and certainly s…
The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society
Encyclopedia of Global Religion
Generations and Religion
Generations and Religion
American Presidential Rhetoric from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush: Another Look at Civil Religion
The period since 1980 in the United States offers an opportunity to reexamine the “American civil religion” hypothesis as put forth by sociologist Robert N. Bellah. In a time of massive changes both domestically and globally, presidential rhetoric on God and country underwent important shifts in substance and style. The author examines several major myths by which Americans have affirmed their identity historically, and how these have informed th…
Pluralism as a Culture: Religion and Civility in Southern California
This article describes Southern California as a particular setting for the study of religious pluralism and civil society. The region's history of global religious and cultural encounters, lack of a religious establishment, hypermodernity, and fluid identities have all contributed to “pluralism as a culture,” or a style of inter-group interaction and cooperation characterized generally by openness and acceptance. Finally, the author discusses how…
North American Religious Communities
Religion and Spirituality: Toward an Integrated Analysis
For religion in modern societies, the early-twenty-first century is a time of considerable and often subtle transformation. One such subtlety is the growing attention to personal spiritual well-being and the ferment surrounding whatever people take to be sacred. Voices to this effect are heard within congregations of many differing faith traditions and in many other, seemingly less likely places, such as in self-help groups and at retreat centers…
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion
In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative appro…
Spiritual Seeking in the United States: Report on a Panel Study
This paper examines the rise of a spiritual quest culture in the United States. A large-scale survey of the post-World War II baby-boom generation reveals high levels of fluidity, of people moving in and out of religious groups and of frequent changes in beliefs and practices. The term "spiritual" is now commonly used to identify oneself, usually conjoined with the word "religious" but often not. Spiritual concerns are widely expressed, having to…
Religious Studies and Sociology
Forum: American Spirituality
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Modernity, the Religious, and the Spiritual
Research on the post-World War II generations offers the opportunity to examine significant trends in American religion that will shape the early decades of the next century. A reclaiming of the spiritual, the more experiential aspects of religion, is at the very heart of these changes for younger cohorts of Americans. The crucial question is, Will religious institutions adapt to these experiential quests and provide the symbolic resources needed…
Religious Borderlands: Challenges for Future Study
It's never been very clear to me what is expected of a presidential address other than that people like it to be fairly short. Over the years the speeches have changed but they have not gotten any shorter. Years back we had a separate session with a formal address, but for a number of years now, we have done it banquet-style. addresses have become more informal, more like after-dinner toasts. So, in that spirit, let me begin by saying that while …
The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Thick Gatherings: Congregations in America American Congregations . James P. Wind , James W. Lewis
Value Change in Global Perspective. Paul R. Abramson , Ronald Inglehart
The Postwar Generation and Established Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion
In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative appro…
Trends in Residential Segregation: 1960-1970
The literature on racial residential segregation in American metropolitan areas reports contradictory findings on the decade of the sixties. Some researchers have concluded that average scores declined between 1960 and 1970, while other point to evidence of increases. This paper presents tract-based indexes for all 237 SMSAs (and their central cities) in 1970 and a comparable set of indexes for 1960. These are also cross-tabulated against region,…
Multiple Religious Switching: A Research Note
The 1988 General Social Survey included a new measure providing information on the number of times people have switched religious preferences and why. Data show that one-third of all religious switchers are multiple switchers who tend to be male, well-educated, and concentrated in the Mountain region more than anywhere else. Marriage, family, and friends are the most-cited reasons given for switching
Traditional Religion in Contemporary Society: A Theory of Local-Cosmopolitan Plausibility
Sociological theories of religion typically presuppose a religiously-based nqimative order, and for this reason their appropriateness in a modern, secular society is questionable A localcosmopolitan theory is proposed which attempts to identify an important plausibility structure for traditional, church-type religion today. Analysis of data from a sample of Worth Carolina Episcopalians shows that this theory not only explains multidimensional rel…
Desperately Seeking Sheila: Locating Religious Privatism in American Society
This paper examines a battery of questions on personal religiosity that were included for the first time in the 1988 General Social Survey. Combined into a composite measure, the questions predict privatized religion in American society. Privatized religion (Sheilaism) was found to vary inversely with institutional religious loyalty. Men, whites, young Americans, liberal Protestants, Nones, and people living in the Pacific states and in New Engla…
Religious Commitment and the Quality of Life in American Society
On Conceptualizing Salience in Religious Commitment
Two alternative approaches to the conceptualization and analysis of salience in religious commitment are examined: specification and linear, additive models. Using data from a North Carolina sample of Episcopalians, little evidence is found in support of a specification effect. Considerably more support is obtained, however, for a linear, additive formulation in which salience is conceptualized as intervening between localistic world view and ort…
American Presidential Rhetoric from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush: Another Look at Civil Religion
The period since 1980 in the United States offers an opportunity to reexamine the “American civil religion” hypothesis as put forth by sociologist Robert N. Bellah. In a time of massive changes both domestically and globally, presidential rhetoric on God and country underwent important shifts in substance and style. The author examines several major myths by which Americans have affirmed their identity historically, and how these have informed th…
Denominational Switching in the Seventies: Going beyond Stark and Glock
Wade Clark Roof, Christopher Kirk Hadaway, Denominational Switching in the Seventies: Going beyond Stark and Glock, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 363-377
Residential Segregation of Blacks and Racial Inequality in Southern Cities: Toward a Causal Model
This paper examines the relation of non-white residential segregation to black-white differentials in education, occupation, and income for southern cities as of 1960. Utilizing van den Berghe's paternalistic-to-competitive theory of race relations in an industrializing society, a causal model is postulated and empirically examined which views the black ghetto as instrumental in institutionalizing inequalities. The 1960 census data for a sample o…
Those Who Stay Religious 'Nones' and Those Who Don't: A Research Note
Spiritual Seeking in the United States: Report on a Panel Study
This paper examines the rise of a spiritual quest culture in the United States. A large-scale survey of the post-World War II baby-boom generation reveals high levels of fluidity, of people moving in and out of religious groups and of frequent changes in beliefs and practices. The term "spiritual" is now commonly used to identify oneself, usually conjoined with the word "religious" but often not. Spiritual concerns are widely expressed, having to…
Residential Segregation in Southern Cities: 1970
The authors construct a regional model of residential segregation in the South, using demographic and socioeconomic variables. Based on an analysis of the age, size, percent black, and occupational and income differentials in 32 southern cities, the findings show that: (1) age is still the strongest predictor of residential segregation; (2) socioeconomic factors need to be examined in their traditional southern context as indicators of residentia…
Religion-Recent Strands in Research
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
Modernity, the Religious, and the Spiritual
Research on the post-World War II generations offers the opportunity to examine significant trends in American religion that will shape the early decades of the next century. A reclaiming of the spiritual, the more experiential aspects of religion, is at the very heart of these changes for younger cohorts of Americans. The crucial question is, Will religious institutions adapt to these experiential quests and provide the symbolic resources needed…
God Is in the Details: Reflections on Religion's Public Presence in the United States in the Mid-1990s
Journal Article God is in the Details: Reflections on Religion's Public Presence in the United States in the Mid-1990s Get access Wade Clark Roof Wade Clark Roof University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 57, Issue 2, Summer 1996, Pages 149-162, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711947 Published: 01 July 1996
Toward the Year 2000: Reconstructions of Religious Space
As we approach the year 2000, there will be much reflection about the nation's religious and spiritual condition. In this article, three domains of American life are singled out as examples of how religious space is being reconstructed by the large portion of the population known as baby boomers. The first is the new religious pluralism of the nation's inner cities, reflecting a global order. Hispanics, Asian immigrants, and people of color are c…
Race and Residence: The Shifting Basis of American Race Relations
Racially-segregated ghettos evolved in the early decades of this century, first in northern cities and later throughout the nation. Levels of urban residential segregation for blacks have remained high over the years and—unlike the earlier pattern for European immigrants—have not declined as blacks have made economic progress. Despite modest declines in segregation in the sixties, metropolitan decline in the seventies and structural shifts in emp…
Socioeconomic Differentials among White Socioreligious Groups in the United States
Journal Article Socioeconomic Differentials Among White Socioreligious Groups in the United States Get access Wade Clark Roof Wade Clark Roof University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 58, Issue 1, September 1979, Pages 280–289, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/58.1.280 Published: 01 September 1979
Religious Orthodoxy and Minority Prejudice: Causal Relationship or Reflection of Localistic World View
This study examines the relationship of religious orthodoxy to prejudice against minorities using a world-view perspective. Instead of regarding the two as causally relate, I argue that both religious belief and intolerance toward minorities are reflections of a localistic world view formed by individuals with limited social perspectives. Data from a North Carolina survey sample support this explanantion, showing that the orthodoxy-prejudice rela…
Residential Segregation and Social Differentiation in American Urban Areas
Journal Article Residential Segregation and Social Differentiation in American Urban Areas Get access W. Clark Roof, W. Clark Roof University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas L. Van Valey Thomas L. Van Valey Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 51, Issue 1, September 1972, Pages 87–91, https://doi.org…
Pluralism as a Culture: Religion and Civility in Southern California
This article describes Southern California as a particular setting for the study of religious pluralism and civil society. The region's history of global religious and cultural encounters, lack of a religious establishment, hypermodernity, and fluid identities have all contributed to “pluralism as a culture,” or a style of inter-group interaction and cooperation characterized generally by openness and acceptance. Finally, the author discusses how…
Denominational America and the New Religious Pluralism
This article examines the changing character of religious pluralism in America since midcentury. Major changes bringing about a new climate include an expanding pluralism, declines of the liberal establishment, and a conservative religious and moral resurgence. As a result there have been broad shifts and realignments of religion and culture and a changing social and demographic basis of religion in the country. Patterns of religious switching po…
Church Involvement in America: Social Factors Affecting Membership and Participation
Wade Clark Roof, R. Hoge, Church Involvement in America: Social Factors Affecting Membership and Participation, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, Supplement: The Unchurched American: A Second Look (1980), pp. 405-426
Religion Southern Style
Cracks in the Melting Pot
Religion USA: "Religion and Culture by Way of "Time Magazine
Journal Article Religion USA: Religion and Culture by Way of Time Magazine. By Matthew Fox. Dubuque, Iowa: Listening Press, 1971. 451 pp. $3.65 Get access W. Clark Roof W. Clark Roof University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 32, Issue 4, Winter 1971, Pages 250–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710234 Published: 01 December 1971
The Local-Cosmopolitan Orientation and Traditional Religious Commitment
Some substantive issues involved in explaining variation in traditional religious commitment are examined in this paper, and an argument is put forth calling for new explanatory schemes. The local-cosmopolitan orientation is proposed as a predictor of traditional religiosity, viewing “localism” as a context of meaning for church-linked behavior and belief. This hypothesis is tested and substantiated with exploratory data from a sample of Southern…
Residential Segregation and Social Differentiation in American Urban Areas
Journal Article Residential Segregation and Social Differentiation in American Urban Areas Get access W. Clark Roof, W. Clark Roof University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas L. Van Valey Thomas L. Van Valey Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 51, Issue 1, September 1972, Pages 87–91, https://doi.org…
Religion: A Sociological View
Residential Segregation of Blacks and Racial Inequality in Southern Cities: Toward a Causal Model
This paper examines the relation of non-white residential segregation to black-white differentials in education, occupation, and income for southern cities as of 1960. Utilizing van den Berghe's paternalistic-to-competitive theory of race relations in an industrializing society, a causal model is postulated and empirically examined which views the black ghetto as instrumental in institutionalizing inequalities. The 1960 census data for a sample o…
New Minorities, Old Conflicts: Asian and West Indian Migrants in Britain. Sheila Allen Japanese Americans: Oppression and Success. William Petersen
Capitalists without Capitalism: The Jains of India and the Quakers of the West
Professor Nevaskar explores two vastly different cultures--the Quakers of America and the Jains of India--to show how non-economic factors affect the development of economic systems
Measuring Religious Dimensions
Religious Orthodoxy and Minority Prejudice: Causal Relationship or Reflection of Localistic World View
This study examines the relationship of religious orthodoxy to prejudice against minorities using a world-view perspective. Instead of regarding the two as causally relate, I argue that both religious belief and intolerance toward minorities are reflections of a localistic world view formed by individuals with limited social perspectives. Data from a North Carolina survey sample support this explanantion, showing that the orthodoxy-prejudice rela…
The Death of White Sociology
On Conceptualizing Salience in Religious Commitment
Two alternative approaches to the conceptualization and analysis of salience in religious commitment are examined: specification and linear, additive models. Using data from a North Carolina sample of Episcopalians, little evidence is found in support of a specification effect. Considerably more support is obtained, however, for a linear, additive formulation in which salience is conceptualized as intervening between localistic world view and ort…
Measuring Residential Segregation in American Cities Problems of Intercity Comparison
Following the lead of the Taeubers (1965), investigators typically calculate residential segregation scores for American cities using data on city blocks. Such indexes provide summary measures of segregation for cities, and it is no doubt for this reason that they have become so useful in analyzing residential patterns by race. Since the publication of Taeuber and Taeuber’s Negroes in Cities in 1965, residential segregation scores for blacks have…
Traditional Religion in Contemporary Society: A Theory of Local-Cosmopolitan Plausibility
Sociological theories of religion typically presuppose a religiously-based nqimative order, and for this reason their appropriateness in a modern, secular society is questionable A localcosmopolitan theory is proposed which attempts to identify an important plausibility structure for traditional, church-type religion today. Analysis of data from a sample of Worth Carolina Episcopalians shows that this theory not only explains multidimensional rel…
Residential Segregation in Southern Cities: 1970
The authors construct a regional model of residential segregation in the South, using demographic and socioeconomic variables. Based on an analysis of the age, size, percent black, and occupational and income differentials in 32 southern cities, the findings show that: (1) age is still the strongest predictor of residential segregation; (2) socioeconomic factors need to be examined in their traditional southern context as indicators of residentia…
Religion-Recent Strands in Research
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
A Research Note on City-Suburban Socioeconomic Differences among American Blacks
Journal Article A Research Note on City-Suburban Socioeconomic Differences among American Blacks Get access Wade Clark Roof, Wade Clark Roof University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Daphne Spain Daphne Spain University of New Orleans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue 1, September 1977, Pages 15–20, https://doi.org/10.…
Inner visions
Shifts in Religious Preference: The Mid-Seventies
Yinger's Measure of Non-Doctrinal Religion: A Northeastern Test
Wade Clark Roof, Christopher Kirk Hadaway, Myrna L. Hewitt, Douglas McGaw, Richard Morse, Yinger's Measure of Non-Doctrinal Religion: A Northeastern Test, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 403-408
The Consciousness Reformation
A Methodological Critique
Trends in Residential Segregation: 1960-1970
The literature on racial residential segregation in American metropolitan areas reports contradictory findings on the decade of the sixties. Some researchers have concluded that average scores declined between 1960 and 1970, while other point to evidence of increases. This paper presents tract-based indexes for all 237 SMSAs (and their central cities) in 1970 and a comparable set of indexes for 1960. These are also cross-tabulated against region,…
A Nation of Behavers
Sociology (93 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (65 works) · Political science (53 works) · Philosophy (50 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (39 works) · Religious studies (32 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (30 works) · Law (26 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Social science (16 works)