Jonathan P Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan P Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology and Social Work Calvin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4229-5842 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Excerpt: Time and expense are perhaps the two biggest challenges in evaluating existing measures and devoloping new metrics. Measuring social characterists of a population such as religion typically involves expensive surveys undertaken by professional survey firms or academic centers.
Rejecting Evolution
Large segments of the American public are skeptical of human evolution. Surveys consistently find that sizable minorities of the population, frequently near half, deny that an evolutionary process describes how human life developed. This chapter examines the role of religion and education in predicting who changes their beliefs about evolution between late adolescence and early emerging adulthood. It explores that religion is far more important t…
Faith in the Age of Facebook
Social networking or “social network” sites (SNS) are an increasingly popular topic of study for scholars in the social sciences. Although the influence of religion in the lives of emerging adults has been studied, its impact on the new realm of SNS has been understudied. This chapter examines whether religious identity and practice influence SNS behavior or whether these factors can be explained away by social behavior related to and fostered by…
Emerging Adults' Conceptions of Purpose and the Good Life
To understand the purpose acquisition of young emerging adults (18-23), scholars claim we need to learn the types of purposes to which they are committing and how they conceptualize purpose differently from other related concepts such as future goals and the good life. To address these issues, we examined interviews with 229 young emerging adults about their life purpose, future goals, and conceptions of the good life. Although the interviewees' …
No Longer Invisible
Rumblings of the ‘return’ of religion to American colleges and universities have been growing louder in recent years. Alongside various forms of secularism, public religions are re-emerging in new
Rejecting Evolution
Large segments of the American public are skeptical of human evolution. Surveys consistently find that sizable minorities of the population, frequently near half, deny that an evolutionary process describes how human life developed. Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I examine the role of religion and education in predicting who changes their beliefs about evolution between late adolescence and early emerging adulthood. I c…
Religious Schools, Home Schools, and the Timing of First Marriage and First Birth
The timing of individuals' family formation is important for a number of socioeconomic and health outcomes. We examine the influence of religious schools and home schools on the timing of first marriage and first birth using data from the Cardus Education Study Graduate Survey ( N = 1,496). Our results from life tables and event-history regression models show that, on average, graduates of evangelical Protestant schools-but not Catholic school or…
Why most American universities have given up on human purpose and meaning
Recent scholarship claims that American colleges and universities give less and less attention to the meaning of life. In this article we critically evaluate the historical arguments for this claim, focusing primarily on the account given by Anthony Kronman. We argue that Kronman’s history proves particularly problematic if one wants to understand the reasons for American higher education’s treatment of matters of meaning and purpose. His histori…
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
Faith and Understanding
This study examines the impact of educational enrollment and attainment on several measures of religious belief using nationally representative panel data. Although college does not appear to substantially alter the religious beliefs of most emerging adults, findings do reveal a modest increase in skepticism toward super-empirical religious beliefs among college students and graduates compared to those who have never attended any form of postseco…
Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes
Previous research on charitable giving has identified a significant relationship between political conservatism and greater financial giving to charitable causes. Yet that research has not adequately explored the important role of religion in that relationship, nor differences in financial giving targets (i.e., religious congregations, noncongregational religious organizations, and nonreligious organizations). Support for competing theories conce…
Market Share and Religious Competition
A central claim of the religious economies model is that religious competition affects levels of religious participation and commitment primarily because religious competition pushes the suppliers of religion (religious leaders and organizations) to market their faith more vigorously and effectively. We examine whether U.S. congregations experiencing greater religious competition measured by their smaller religious market share do more to recruit…
Higher Education as Moral Community
Borrowing from the literature on religion and deviance, the concept of moral communities is applied to religious and secular postsecondary education to explain institutional influences on student religious participation. Results from nationally representative panel data indicate that students attending Catholic and mainline Protestant affiliated institutions decline in religious participation at a faster rate than students attending evangelical i…
Recent Developments on Porphyrin Assemblies
The porphyrin macrocycle is one of the most frequently investigated functional molecular entities and can be incorporated into advanced functional nanomaterials upon formation of organized nanostructures. Thus, study of the science and technology of porphyrin assemblies has attracted many organic, biological and supramolecular chemists. A wide variety of nanostructures can be obtained by supramolecular self-assembly because the porphyrin moiety i…
Faith and Understanding
This study examines the impact of educational enrollment and attainment on several measures of religious belief using nationally representative panel data. Although college does not appear to substantially alter the religious beliefs of most emerging adults, findings do reveal a modest increase in skepticism toward super-empirical religious beliefs among college students and graduates compared to those who have never attended any form of postseco…
Higher Education as Moral Community
Borrowing from the literature on religion and deviance, the concept of moral communities is applied to religious and secular postsecondary education to explain institutional influences on student religious participation. Results from nationally representative panel data indicate that students attending Catholic and mainline Protestant affiliated institutions decline in religious participation at a faster rate than students attending evangelical i…
Market Share and Religious Competition
A central claim of the religious economies model is that religious competition affects levels of religious participation and commitment primarily because religious competition pushes the suppliers of religion (religious leaders and organizations) to market their faith more vigorously and effectively. We examine whether U.S. congregations experiencing greater religious competition measured by their smaller religious market share do more to recruit…
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes
Previous research on charitable giving has identified a significant relationship between political conservatism and greater financial giving to charitable causes. Yet that research has not adequately explored the important role of religion in that relationship, nor differences in financial giving targets (i.e., religious congregations, noncongregational religious organizations, and nonreligious organizations). Support for competing theories conce…
Rejecting Evolution
Large segments of the American public are skeptical of human evolution. Surveys consistently find that sizable minorities of the population, frequently near half, deny that an evolutionary process describes how human life developed. Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I examine the role of religion and education in predicting who changes their beliefs about evolution between late adolescence and early emerging adulthood. I c…
Religious Schools, Home Schools, and the Timing of First Marriage and First Birth
The timing of individuals' family formation is important for a number of socioeconomic and health outcomes. We examine the influence of religious schools and home schools on the timing of first marriage and first birth using data from the Cardus Education Study Graduate Survey ( N = 1,496). Our results from life tables and event-history regression models show that, on average, graduates of evangelical Protestant schools-but not Catholic school or…
Recent Developments on Porphyrin Assemblies
The porphyrin macrocycle is one of the most frequently investigated functional molecular entities and can be incorporated into advanced functional nanomaterials upon formation of organized nanostructures. Thus, study of the science and technology of porphyrin assemblies has attracted many organic, biological and supramolecular chemists. A wide variety of nanostructures can be obtained by supramolecular self-assembly because the porphyrin moiety i…
Market Share and Religious Competition
A central claim of the religious economies model is that religious competition affects levels of religious participation and commitment primarily because religious competition pushes the suppliers of religion (religious leaders and organizations) to market their faith more vigorously and effectively. We examine whether U.S. congregations experiencing greater religious competition measured by their smaller religious market share do more to recruit…
Higher Education as Moral Community
Borrowing from the literature on religion and deviance, the concept of moral communities is applied to religious and secular postsecondary education to explain institutional influences on student religious participation. Results from nationally representative panel data indicate that students attending Catholic and mainline Protestant affiliated institutions decline in religious participation at a faster rate than students attending evangelical i…
Faith and Understanding
This study examines the impact of educational enrollment and attainment on several measures of religious belief using nationally representative panel data. Although college does not appear to substantially alter the religious beliefs of most emerging adults, findings do reveal a modest increase in skepticism toward super-empirical religious beliefs among college students and graduates compared to those who have never attended any form of postseco…
Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes
Previous research on charitable giving has identified a significant relationship between political conservatism and greater financial giving to charitable causes. Yet that research has not adequately explored the important role of religion in that relationship, nor differences in financial giving targets (i.e., religious congregations, noncongregational religious organizations, and nonreligious organizations). Support for competing theories conce…
Why most American universities have given up on human purpose and meaning
Recent scholarship claims that American colleges and universities give less and less attention to the meaning of life. In this article we critically evaluate the historical arguments for this claim, focusing primarily on the account given by Anthony Kronman. We argue that Kronman’s history proves particularly problematic if one wants to understand the reasons for American higher education’s treatment of matters of meaning and purpose. His histori…
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
No Longer Invisible
Rumblings of the ‘return’ of religion to American colleges and universities have been growing louder in recent years. Alongside various forms of secularism, public religions are re-emerging in new
Rejecting Evolution
Large segments of the American public are skeptical of human evolution. Surveys consistently find that sizable minorities of the population, frequently near half, deny that an evolutionary process describes how human life developed. Using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, I examine the role of religion and education in predicting who changes their beliefs about evolution between late adolescence and early emerging adulthood. I c…
Religious Schools, Home Schools, and the Timing of First Marriage and First Birth
The timing of individuals' family formation is important for a number of socioeconomic and health outcomes. We examine the influence of religious schools and home schools on the timing of first marriage and first birth using data from the Cardus Education Study Graduate Survey ( N = 1,496). Our results from life tables and event-history regression models show that, on average, graduates of evangelical Protestant schools-but not Catholic school or…
Emerging Adults' Conceptions of Purpose and the Good Life
To understand the purpose acquisition of young emerging adults (18-23), scholars claim we need to learn the types of purposes to which they are committing and how they conceptualize purpose differently from other related concepts such as future goals and the good life. To address these issues, we examined interviews with 229 young emerging adults about their life purpose, future goals, and conceptions of the good life. Although the interviewees' …
Rejecting Evolution
Large segments of the American public are skeptical of human evolution. Surveys consistently find that sizable minorities of the population, frequently near half, deny that an evolutionary process describes how human life developed. This chapter examines the role of religion and education in predicting who changes their beliefs about evolution between late adolescence and early emerging adulthood. It explores that religion is far more important t…
Faith in the Age of Facebook
Social networking or “social network” sites (SNS) are an increasingly popular topic of study for scholars in the social sciences. Although the influence of religion in the lives of emerging adults has been studied, its impact on the new realm of SNS has been understudied. This chapter examines whether religious identity and practice influence SNS behavior or whether these factors can be explained away by social behavior related to and fostered by…
Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Excerpt: Time and expense are perhaps the two biggest challenges in evaluating existing measures and devoloping new metrics. Measuring social characterists of a population such as religion typically involves expensive surveys undertaken by professional survey firms or academic centers.
Sociology (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works)