Brian J Grim
Biographic Data
| ID | 378838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian J Grim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Grim |
| SIGNATURE | GRIM B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pew Research Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5679-2615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse
This study reviews the voluminous empirical evidence on faith's contribution to preventing people from falling victim to substance abuse and helping them recover from it. We find that 73% of addiction treatment programs in the USA include a spirituality-based element, as embodied in the 12-step programs and fellowships initially popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the vast majority of which emphasize reliance on God or a Higher Power to stay sob…
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
Global Religious Diversity
Global Population Projections by Religion: 2010–2050
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
Focused Group Interviews as an Innovative Quanti- Qualitative Methodology (QQM ): Integrating Quantitative Elements into a Qualitative Methodology
There is a sharp divide between quantitative and qualitative methodologies in the social sciences. We investigate an innovative way to bridge this gap that incorporates quantitative techniques into a qualitative method, the “quanti-qualitative method” (QQM). Specifically, our research utilized small survey questionnaires and experiment-like activities as part of the question rout e in a series of five focused group interviews on nutrition educati…
The Modern Chinese Secret to Sustainable Economic Growth: Religious Freedom and Diversity
The findings discussed in this article1 will be surprising to the half of China's population for whom religion is not a significant part of life. To the other half, they will make some sense, but s
The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations
People who are religiously unaffiliated (including self-identifying atheists and agnostics, as well as those who say their religion is "nothing in particular") made up 16.4% of the world's population in 2010. Unaffiliated populations have been growing in N
Methodology of the Pew Research Global Religious Landscape Study
A comprehensive demographic study by Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion who live in more than 230 countries and territories. At the same time, the new study by the Pew Research Center also finds that roughly one-in-six people around the globe have no religious affiliation. …
Growing religion and growing religious restrictions: A global overview
Major cross-national social scientific studies by the Pew Research Center reveal that the overwhelming majority people today self-identify as being affiliated with one religion or another, and even among people who are religiously unaffiliated, many have some religious beliefs or engage in some religious practices. The prospects for continued growth of religious populations appear strong as they are younger on average than the world’s religiously…
The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Cross-National Influences on Social Hostilities Involving Religion and Government Restrictions on Religion
Recent empirical research conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life documents how social hostilities and government restrictions involving religion have cross-national impacts or influences. Data from a large ongoing research project demonstrates that there are six broad manifestations of these cross-border dynamics: 1) tensions over the religion of immigrants and refugees; 2) religious extremism spreading from countr…
Religion, Law and Social Conflict in the 21st Century: Findings from Sociological Research
Social hostilities involving religion have risen during the first decade of the 21st century, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. Religion-related terrorist groups were active in 74 countries in the period ending in mid-2009. Of the countries where social hostilities involving religion rose substantially, half were in Europe. In the Middle East–North Africa region, government restrictions on…
The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded dat…
Western Views Toward Muslims: Evidence from a 2006 Cross-National Survey
Concerns about Islamic extremism and ongoing debates about the integration and assimilation of Muslims into Western societies continue to attract considerable attention from the media, policymakers, and scholars, but relatively little cross-national research has been done on Western attitudes toward Muslims. This article attempts to address this question by exploring 2006 Pew Global Attitudes data among non-Muslims in Britain, France, Germany, Sp…
Cross-Validating Measures of Global Religious Intolerance: Comparing Coded State Department Reports with Survey Data and Expert Opinion
We address a pressing substantive issue as well as evaluate several methodologies in this article. Substantively, we ask whether the U.S. State Department has a clear understanding of the level of cross-national religious intolerance that triggers daily headlines around the globe. Methodologically, we ask whether data on social attitudes coded from systematic qualitative reports can reliably represent cross-national public opinion. We empirically…
Pentecostalism's Growth in Religiously Restricted Environments
Religious Freedom: Good for What Ails Us
People worldwide desire freedom to practice their religion, but religion is implicated in many of today's most urgent security problems. Multinational statistical data indicate that a bundled commodity of human freedoms, including religious freedom, augments socio-economic wellbeing. The protection of fair religious competition leads to less religious violence and energizes productive participation. Research supports the concept of a religious fr…
Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies
Despite the high visibility of religiously charged international social conflicts, the unique role of religion often is overlooked in social science research and theory. Some studies ignore religion, others conflate religion with other identities. Virtually all lack adequate data. We respond to these deficiencies by testing a theory-driven model of a particular form of social conflict, religious persecution. We investigate the proposition that re…
Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies
Despite the high visibility of religiously charged international social conflicts, the unique role of religion often is overlooked in social science research and theory. Some studies ignore religion, others conflate religion with other identities. Virtually all lack adequate data. We respond to these deficiencies by testing a theory-driven model of a particular form of social conflict, religious persecution. We investigate the proposition that re…
Western Views Toward Muslims: Evidence from a 2006 Cross-National Survey
Concerns about Islamic extremism and ongoing debates about the integration and assimilation of Muslims into Western societies continue to attract considerable attention from the media, policymakers, and scholars, but relatively little cross-national research has been done on Western attitudes toward Muslims. This article attempts to address this question by exploring 2006 Pew Global Attitudes data among non-Muslims in Britain, France, Germany, Sp…
The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations
People who are religiously unaffiliated (including self-identifying atheists and agnostics, as well as those who say their religion is "nothing in particular") made up 16.4% of the world's population in 2010. Unaffiliated populations have been growing in N
Religious Freedom: Good for What Ails Us
People worldwide desire freedom to practice their religion, but religion is implicated in many of today's most urgent security problems. Multinational statistical data indicate that a bundled commodity of human freedoms, including religious freedom, augments socio-economic wellbeing. The protection of fair religious competition leads to less religious violence and energizes productive participation. Research supports the concept of a religious fr…
Growing religion and growing religious restrictions: A global overview
Major cross-national social scientific studies by the Pew Research Center reveal that the overwhelming majority people today self-identify as being affiliated with one religion or another, and even among people who are religiously unaffiliated, many have some religious beliefs or engage in some religious practices. The prospects for continued growth of religious populations appear strong as they are younger on average than the world’s religiously…
Cross-National Influences on Social Hostilities Involving Religion and Government Restrictions on Religion
Recent empirical research conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life documents how social hostilities and government restrictions involving religion have cross-national impacts or influences. Data from a large ongoing research project demonstrates that there are six broad manifestations of these cross-border dynamics: 1) tensions over the religion of immigrants and refugees; 2) religious extremism spreading from countr…
The Modern Chinese Secret to Sustainable Economic Growth: Religious Freedom and Diversity
The findings discussed in this article1 will be surprising to the half of China's population for whom religion is not a significant part of life. To the other half, they will make some sense, but s
Cross-Validating Measures of Global Religious Intolerance: Comparing Coded State Department Reports with Survey Data and Expert Opinion
We address a pressing substantive issue as well as evaluate several methodologies in this article. Substantively, we ask whether the U.S. State Department has a clear understanding of the level of cross-national religious intolerance that triggers daily headlines around the globe. Methodologically, we ask whether data on social attitudes coded from systematic qualitative reports can reliably represent cross-national public opinion. We empirically…
Pentecostalism's Growth in Religiously Restricted Environments
Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies
Despite the high visibility of religiously charged international social conflicts, the unique role of religion often is overlooked in social science research and theory. Some studies ignore religion, others conflate religion with other identities. Virtually all lack adequate data. We respond to these deficiencies by testing a theory-driven model of a particular form of social conflict, religious persecution. We investigate the proposition that re…
Religious Freedom: Good for What Ails Us
People worldwide desire freedom to practice their religion, but religion is implicated in many of today's most urgent security problems. Multinational statistical data indicate that a bundled commodity of human freedoms, including religious freedom, augments socio-economic wellbeing. The protection of fair religious competition leads to less religious violence and energizes productive participation. Research supports the concept of a religious fr…
Pentecostalism's Growth in Religiously Restricted Environments
The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded dat…
Western Views Toward Muslims: Evidence from a 2006 Cross-National Survey
Concerns about Islamic extremism and ongoing debates about the integration and assimilation of Muslims into Western societies continue to attract considerable attention from the media, policymakers, and scholars, but relatively little cross-national research has been done on Western attitudes toward Muslims. This article attempts to address this question by exploring 2006 Pew Global Attitudes data among non-Muslims in Britain, France, Germany, Sp…
Cross-Validating Measures of Global Religious Intolerance: Comparing Coded State Department Reports with Survey Data and Expert Opinion
We address a pressing substantive issue as well as evaluate several methodologies in this article. Substantively, we ask whether the U.S. State Department has a clear understanding of the level of cross-national religious intolerance that triggers daily headlines around the globe. Methodologically, we ask whether data on social attitudes coded from systematic qualitative reports can reliably represent cross-national public opinion. We empirically…
Religion, Law and Social Conflict in the 21st Century: Findings from Sociological Research
Social hostilities involving religion have risen during the first decade of the 21st century, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. Religion-related terrorist groups were active in 74 countries in the period ending in mid-2009. Of the countries where social hostilities involving religion rose substantially, half were in Europe. In the Middle East–North Africa region, government restrictions on…
The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography
Cross-National Influences on Social Hostilities Involving Religion and Government Restrictions on Religion
Recent empirical research conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life documents how social hostilities and government restrictions involving religion have cross-national impacts or influences. Data from a large ongoing research project demonstrates that there are six broad manifestations of these cross-border dynamics: 1) tensions over the religion of immigrants and refugees; 2) religious extremism spreading from countr…
Methodology of the Pew Research Global Religious Landscape Study
A comprehensive demographic study by Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion who live in more than 230 countries and territories. At the same time, the new study by the Pew Research Center also finds that roughly one-in-six people around the globe have no religious affiliation. …
Growing religion and growing religious restrictions: A global overview
Major cross-national social scientific studies by the Pew Research Center reveal that the overwhelming majority people today self-identify as being affiliated with one religion or another, and even among people who are religiously unaffiliated, many have some religious beliefs or engage in some religious practices. The prospects for continued growth of religious populations appear strong as they are younger on average than the world’s religiously…
Global Religious Diversity
Global Population Projections by Religion: 2010–2050
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
Focused Group Interviews as an Innovative Quanti- Qualitative Methodology (QQM ): Integrating Quantitative Elements into a Qualitative Methodology
There is a sharp divide between quantitative and qualitative methodologies in the social sciences. We investigate an innovative way to bridge this gap that incorporates quantitative techniques into a qualitative method, the “quanti-qualitative method” (QQM). Specifically, our research utilized small survey questionnaires and experiment-like activities as part of the question rout e in a series of five focused group interviews on nutrition educati…
The Modern Chinese Secret to Sustainable Economic Growth: Religious Freedom and Diversity
The findings discussed in this article1 will be surprising to the half of China's population for whom religion is not a significant part of life. To the other half, they will make some sense, but s
The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations
People who are religiously unaffiliated (including self-identifying atheists and agnostics, as well as those who say their religion is "nothing in particular") made up 16.4% of the world's population in 2010. Unaffiliated populations have been growing in N
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018
The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill),…
Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse
This study reviews the voluminous empirical evidence on faith's contribution to preventing people from falling victim to substance abuse and helping them recover from it. We find that 73% of addiction treatment programs in the USA include a spirituality-based element, as embodied in the 12-step programs and fellowships initially popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the vast majority of which emphasize reliance on God or a Higher Power to stay sob…
Sociology (17 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (15 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Demography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 works) · Population (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)