D Paul Sullins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Paul Sullins |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullins |
| SIGNATURE | SULLINS D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9592-8394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critiques Strengthen and Improve the Original Findings
Reply to Strizzi and Di Nucci (2023b) on Ethical and Human Rights Concerns of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Do Not Increase Suicide
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality
"Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality." , 111(4), pp. e19–e20
American Parishes
Catholic parishes, argue this book’s editors, occupy an often-ignored middle level of analysis between studies of global Catholicism and Catholic individuals. Existing parish studies tend to be applied and atheoretical, using “the methods of sociology without conceptual elaboration or theoretical interpretation” (5). What theoretical interpretations exist tend at least implicitly to associate Catholic parishes with Protestant congregations in a g…
Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex Married Parents
Because of classification errors reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 42 % of the same-sex married partners in the sample for this study are misclassified different-sex married partners, thus calling into question findings regarding same-sex married parents. Including biological parentage as a control variable suppresses same-sex/different-sex differences, thus obscuring the data error. Parentage is not appropriate …
Institutional Selection for Conformity
The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest's beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by birth cohort) or institutional selection (indicated by…
Sitting in Church
Giddens’ structuration theory suggests that social zoning or regionalization in worship services may occur on a front-to-back axis. To test this prediction, we observed the seating of individuals ( N = 3,426) at worship services over a 3-year period at 35 churches in three Protestant denominations: Southern Baptist, United Methodist, and Episcopalian. We found that persons seated in congregations are structured into three zones front to rear. Ear…
Beyond Christendom
Using actual and projected population data from the World Christian Database, this article evaluates Philip Jenkins' argument that the centre of global Christianity is moving from the Euro‐American centre (the ‘global North’) to the developing world (the ‘global South’) by disaggregating the different outcomes of this shift for Protestants and Catholics. Over the next fifty years, Catholics will decline much less than Protestants in the North, an…
Gender and Religion
The universality of higher female religiousness and insufficiency of any social explanation have led to proposals that it is a product of psychological or physiological differences. However, the female ad-vantage in religiousness is not universal. Distinguishing affective (personal piety) from active (organizational participation) religious-ness, in a third of nations (World Values Survey) women are no higher than men in active religiousness. Amo…
Priests
An Organizational Classification of Protestant Denominations
The Difference Catholic Makes
This study examines, for the case of Catholics, the thesis that a 'critical mass' of devoted faculty members-50 percent or more, according to the papal document Ex Corde Ecclesia-serves to promote or preserve the religious character of religiously affiliated institutions of higher education. Factor analysis and structural equations are employed to analyze a random sample of faculty members (n= 1,290) and institutional profiles (n= 100) of America…
The Stained Glass Ceiling
Despite formal acceptance, women clergy have faced subordination in practice in many Protestant denominations. Previous theory has located this disparity in a distinction between the bureaucratic or “tightly coupled” elements of denominational organization and those that are cultural or “loosely coupled,” predicting that, as the innovation of ordained women becomes routinized over time, gender disparities among the clergy will diminish. To examin…
Catholic/Protestant Trends on Abortion
Using data from the 1972-1996 General Social Surveys, no difference greater than sampling variation is found between Protestants and Catholics in the most recent 5-year period (1992-1996) in the proportion holding either a pro-life or a pro-choice position on abortion. Sociological factors underlying this convergence are found to be: a steep decline in church attendance over the period among Catholics, but not Protestants; increasing variance fro…
The Structure of Resurrection Belief
Getting Coherent about Coherence
Journal Article Getting Coherent about Coherence: A Rejoinder to McKinney and Roof Get access D. Paul Sullins D. Paul Sullins The Catholic University of America Direct correspondence to D. Paul Sullins, 6401 N. Solomons Island Rd., Sunderland, MD 20689. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 2, December 1994, Pages 757–759, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/73.2.757 Published: 01 December…
Switching Close to Home
Data derived from the General Social Surveys (GSS, 1973—84: and 1973—90) are analyzed using Goodman's loglinear mobility data techniques to assess assertions of Roof and McKinney (1987) regarding the switching of affiliation among “families” (conservative, moderate, or liberal) of Protestant denominations. Their claim that switching has increased in recent years is contradicted by results showing a statistically significant decline in switching i…
Gender and Religion
The universality of higher female religiousness and insufficiency of any social explanation have led to proposals that it is a product of psychological or physiological differences. However, the female ad-vantage in religiousness is not universal. Distinguishing affective (personal piety) from active (organizational participation) religious-ness, in a third of nations (World Values Survey) women are no higher than men in active religiousness. Amo…
The Stained Glass Ceiling
Despite formal acceptance, women clergy have faced subordination in practice in many Protestant denominations. Previous theory has located this disparity in a distinction between the bureaucratic or “tightly coupled” elements of denominational organization and those that are cultural or “loosely coupled,” predicting that, as the innovation of ordained women becomes routinized over time, gender disparities among the clergy will diminish. To examin…
Catholic/Protestant Trends on Abortion
Using data from the 1972-1996 General Social Surveys, no difference greater than sampling variation is found between Protestants and Catholics in the most recent 5-year period (1992-1996) in the proportion holding either a pro-life or a pro-choice position on abortion. Sociological factors underlying this convergence are found to be: a steep decline in church attendance over the period among Catholics, but not Protestants; increasing variance fro…
An Organizational Classification of Protestant Denominations
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Do Not Increase Suicide
Switching Close to Home
Data derived from the General Social Surveys (GSS, 1973—84: and 1973—90) are analyzed using Goodman's loglinear mobility data techniques to assess assertions of Roof and McKinney (1987) regarding the switching of affiliation among “families” (conservative, moderate, or liberal) of Protestant denominations. Their claim that switching has increased in recent years is contradicted by results showing a statistically significant decline in switching i…
Critiques Strengthen and Improve the Original Findings
The Difference Catholic Makes
This study examines, for the case of Catholics, the thesis that a 'critical mass' of devoted faculty members-50 percent or more, according to the papal document Ex Corde Ecclesia-serves to promote or preserve the religious character of religiously affiliated institutions of higher education. Factor analysis and structural equations are employed to analyze a random sample of faculty members (n= 1,290) and institutional profiles (n= 100) of America…
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality
"Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality." , 111(4), pp. e19–e20
Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex Married Parents
Because of classification errors reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 42 % of the same-sex married partners in the sample for this study are misclassified different-sex married partners, thus calling into question findings regarding same-sex married parents. Including biological parentage as a control variable suppresses same-sex/different-sex differences, thus obscuring the data error. Parentage is not appropriate …
Beyond Christendom
Using actual and projected population data from the World Christian Database, this article evaluates Philip Jenkins' argument that the centre of global Christianity is moving from the Euro‐American centre (the ‘global North’) to the developing world (the ‘global South’) by disaggregating the different outcomes of this shift for Protestants and Catholics. Over the next fifty years, Catholics will decline much less than Protestants in the North, an…
Switching Close to Home
Data derived from the General Social Surveys (GSS, 1973—84: and 1973—90) are analyzed using Goodman's loglinear mobility data techniques to assess assertions of Roof and McKinney (1987) regarding the switching of affiliation among “families” (conservative, moderate, or liberal) of Protestant denominations. Their claim that switching has increased in recent years is contradicted by results showing a statistically significant decline in switching i…
The Structure of Resurrection Belief
Getting Coherent about Coherence
Journal Article Getting Coherent about Coherence: A Rejoinder to McKinney and Roof Get access D. Paul Sullins D. Paul Sullins The Catholic University of America Direct correspondence to D. Paul Sullins, 6401 N. Solomons Island Rd., Sunderland, MD 20689. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 2, December 1994, Pages 757–759, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/73.2.757 Published: 01 December…
Catholic/Protestant Trends on Abortion
Using data from the 1972-1996 General Social Surveys, no difference greater than sampling variation is found between Protestants and Catholics in the most recent 5-year period (1992-1996) in the proportion holding either a pro-life or a pro-choice position on abortion. Sociological factors underlying this convergence are found to be: a steep decline in church attendance over the period among Catholics, but not Protestants; increasing variance fro…
The Stained Glass Ceiling
Despite formal acceptance, women clergy have faced subordination in practice in many Protestant denominations. Previous theory has located this disparity in a distinction between the bureaucratic or “tightly coupled” elements of denominational organization and those that are cultural or “loosely coupled,” predicting that, as the innovation of ordained women becomes routinized over time, gender disparities among the clergy will diminish. To examin…
An Organizational Classification of Protestant Denominations
The Difference Catholic Makes
This study examines, for the case of Catholics, the thesis that a 'critical mass' of devoted faculty members-50 percent or more, according to the papal document Ex Corde Ecclesia-serves to promote or preserve the religious character of religiously affiliated institutions of higher education. Factor analysis and structural equations are employed to analyze a random sample of faculty members (n= 1,290) and institutional profiles (n= 100) of America…
Priests
Beyond Christendom
Using actual and projected population data from the World Christian Database, this article evaluates Philip Jenkins' argument that the centre of global Christianity is moving from the Euro‐American centre (the ‘global North’) to the developing world (the ‘global South’) by disaggregating the different outcomes of this shift for Protestants and Catholics. Over the next fifty years, Catholics will decline much less than Protestants in the North, an…
Gender and Religion
The universality of higher female religiousness and insufficiency of any social explanation have led to proposals that it is a product of psychological or physiological differences. However, the female ad-vantage in religiousness is not universal. Distinguishing affective (personal piety) from active (organizational participation) religious-ness, in a third of nations (World Values Survey) women are no higher than men in active religiousness. Amo…
Sitting in Church
Giddens’ structuration theory suggests that social zoning or regionalization in worship services may occur on a front-to-back axis. To test this prediction, we observed the seating of individuals ( N = 3,426) at worship services over a 3-year period at 35 churches in three Protestant denominations: Southern Baptist, United Methodist, and Episcopalian. We found that persons seated in congregations are structured into three zones front to rear. Ear…
Institutional Selection for Conformity
The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest's beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by birth cohort) or institutional selection (indicated by…
Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex Married Parents
Because of classification errors reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 42 % of the same-sex married partners in the sample for this study are misclassified different-sex married partners, thus calling into question findings regarding same-sex married parents. Including biological parentage as a control variable suppresses same-sex/different-sex differences, thus obscuring the data error. Parentage is not appropriate …
American Parishes
Catholic parishes, argue this book’s editors, occupy an often-ignored middle level of analysis between studies of global Catholicism and Catholic individuals. Existing parish studies tend to be applied and atheoretical, using “the methods of sociology without conceptual elaboration or theoretical interpretation” (5). What theoretical interpretations exist tend at least implicitly to associate Catholic parishes with Protestant congregations in a g…
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality
"Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Suicidality." , 111(4), pp. e19–e20
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Do Not Increase Suicide
Critiques Strengthen and Improve the Original Findings
Reply to Strizzi and Di Nucci (2023b) on Ethical and Human Rights Concerns of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts
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