R R Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4274147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R R Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | R R |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Calvin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6122-4257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Interfaith photovoice
Religion is highly visible in the daily activities of Canadians yet the visibility of religious diversity has become a source of tension and conflict. The Interfaith Photovoice (IFPV) Initiative harnesses the visibility of religion and uses the photovoice process to strengthen relationships between Muslims and Christians, bridge cultural divides, encourage mutual advocacy, and engage communities around questions of faith and religious diversity. …
From Sanctuary to Skatepark
Roman R. Williams and Taylor E. Hartson on exploring the adaptive reuse of buildings
Engaging and Researching Congregations Visually
Visual research shows promise in the study of congregations. And with so many people carrying cameras to worship services in the form of a smartphone, opportunities abound for those interested in visual approaches to engagement and research. This article explores the potential of a participatory action technique known as photovoice in congregational settings through a case study of a church located in the midwestern region of the United States. P…
Angel Patriots
Alexander Riley’s Angel Patriots is an engaging account of the cultural processes through which the meanings, narratives, and memory of United Flight 93 are constructed and reconstructed. He writes about something more than a cultural sociology of an ill-fated airplane that crashed on September 11, 2001 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania as passengers attempted to regain control of their flight from terrorist hijackers. Instead, as Geertz may have char…
Photo Elicitation and the Visual Sociology of Religion
Visual research methods-image-based techniques for collecting, analyzing, and explaining data-are not mainstream in the social scientific study of religion. Few sociologists employ them, fewer still to study religion. While mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods have much to offer, words and numbers alone may miss important dimensions of religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. This research note provides an overview of work …
Faith on the Avenue
I have anticipated Katie Day's book from the moment in 2010 that I viewed the narrated slideshow that showcases her research of religion in an urban context. The culmination of eight years of research (2004–2012) among the 80 or so congregations along Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Faith on the Avenue advances the argument that “communities of faith are crucial participants in the dynamic urban ecology” (208). The book arrives a…
Visual Sociology * Doing Visual Research * Advances in Visual Methodology
Places of Faith
Journal Article Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape Get access Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape, by CHRISTOPHER P. SCHEITLE and ROGER FINKE. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 254 pp.; $27.95 USD (paper). Roman R. Williams Roman R. Williams Calvin College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 74, I…
Constructing a Calling
In this study of evangelical Christians from India, China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan enrolled in American colleges and universities, the idea of a calling emerged as an important component of identity and action. A narrative approach that incorporates visual methods was used to collect the stories of 46 interviewees in Boston and two cities in China. Among study participants, 78 percent specifically connect their faith to their professional …
Speaking of Methods
[ In the context of significant religious change, sociologists have been re-thinking both theory and method in these early years of the twenty first century. As our empirical gaze has expanded from the North Atlantic to the globe, our very concepts of belief and practice and organization have been challenged. Secularization has ceased to be the primary theoretical lens through which one understand and society, and a wider range of explorations ha…
Space for God
Despite modernity's attempt to structure religion out of many social domains, people still make space for God—the sacred, spirituality, religion, transcendence, etc.—in their everyday lives. Religion may be less apparent at times, but it is not altogether absent and continues to show up beyond its taken-for-granted boundaries. Drawing from photo elicitation interview materials generated by the Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life project, I expl…
Health family trees
We report on the feasibility and utility of a new approach for identifying the small percentage of families in the general population with strong familial predisposition to early coronary heart disease, strokes, and common familial cancers (breast, colon, lung), using the "Health Family Tree," a medical family history. A total of 24,332 "trees" were completed by parents and students in 37 high schools in 14 urban and rural communities in Texas an…
An Early Coin From Qumran
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Logic Versus Experience In The order of Credal Formulae
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The Vitamin B Adventure
The Vitamin B Adventure R. R. Williams CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.25.4.481 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Space for God
Despite modernity's attempt to structure religion out of many social domains, people still make space for God—the sacred, spirituality, religion, transcendence, etc.—in their everyday lives. Religion may be less apparent at times, but it is not altogether absent and continues to show up beyond its taken-for-granted boundaries. Drawing from photo elicitation interview materials generated by the Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life project, I expl…
Photo Elicitation and the Visual Sociology of Religion
Visual research methods-image-based techniques for collecting, analyzing, and explaining data-are not mainstream in the social scientific study of religion. Few sociologists employ them, fewer still to study religion. While mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods have much to offer, words and numbers alone may miss important dimensions of religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. This research note provides an overview of work …
Constructing a Calling
In this study of evangelical Christians from India, China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan enrolled in American colleges and universities, the idea of a calling emerged as an important component of identity and action. A narrative approach that incorporates visual methods was used to collect the stories of 46 interviewees in Boston and two cities in China. Among study participants, 78 percent specifically connect their faith to their professional …
Health family trees
We report on the feasibility and utility of a new approach for identifying the small percentage of families in the general population with strong familial predisposition to early coronary heart disease, strokes, and common familial cancers (breast, colon, lung), using the "Health Family Tree," a medical family history. A total of 24,332 "trees" were completed by parents and students in 37 high schools in 14 urban and rural communities in Texas an…
Visual Sociology * Doing Visual Research * Advances in Visual Methodology
The Vitamin B Adventure
The Vitamin B Adventure R. R. Williams CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.25.4.481 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Logic Versus Experience In The order of Credal Formulae
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Early Coin From Qumran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Health family trees
We report on the feasibility and utility of a new approach for identifying the small percentage of families in the general population with strong familial predisposition to early coronary heart disease, strokes, and common familial cancers (breast, colon, lung), using the "Health Family Tree," a medical family history. A total of 24,332 "trees" were completed by parents and students in 37 high schools in 14 urban and rural communities in Texas an…
Space for God
Despite modernity's attempt to structure religion out of many social domains, people still make space for God—the sacred, spirituality, religion, transcendence, etc.—in their everyday lives. Religion may be less apparent at times, but it is not altogether absent and continues to show up beyond its taken-for-granted boundaries. Drawing from photo elicitation interview materials generated by the Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life project, I expl…
Speaking of Methods
[ In the context of significant religious change, sociologists have been re-thinking both theory and method in these early years of the twenty first century. As our empirical gaze has expanded from the North Atlantic to the globe, our very concepts of belief and practice and organization have been challenged. Secularization has ceased to be the primary theoretical lens through which one understand and society, and a wider range of explorations ha…
Places of Faith
Journal Article Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape Get access Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape, by CHRISTOPHER P. SCHEITLE and ROGER FINKE. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 254 pp.; $27.95 USD (paper). Roman R. Williams Roman R. Williams Calvin College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 74, I…
Constructing a Calling
In this study of evangelical Christians from India, China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan enrolled in American colleges and universities, the idea of a calling emerged as an important component of identity and action. A narrative approach that incorporates visual methods was used to collect the stories of 46 interviewees in Boston and two cities in China. Among study participants, 78 percent specifically connect their faith to their professional …
Visual Sociology * Doing Visual Research * Advances in Visual Methodology
Photo Elicitation and the Visual Sociology of Religion
Visual research methods-image-based techniques for collecting, analyzing, and explaining data-are not mainstream in the social scientific study of religion. Few sociologists employ them, fewer still to study religion. While mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods have much to offer, words and numbers alone may miss important dimensions of religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. This research note provides an overview of work …
Faith on the Avenue
I have anticipated Katie Day's book from the moment in 2010 that I viewed the narrated slideshow that showcases her research of religion in an urban context. The culmination of eight years of research (2004–2012) among the 80 or so congregations along Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Faith on the Avenue advances the argument that “communities of faith are crucial participants in the dynamic urban ecology” (208). The book arrives a…
Angel Patriots
Alexander Riley’s Angel Patriots is an engaging account of the cultural processes through which the meanings, narratives, and memory of United Flight 93 are constructed and reconstructed. He writes about something more than a cultural sociology of an ill-fated airplane that crashed on September 11, 2001 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania as passengers attempted to regain control of their flight from terrorist hijackers. Instead, as Geertz may have char…
Engaging and Researching Congregations Visually
Visual research shows promise in the study of congregations. And with so many people carrying cameras to worship services in the form of a smartphone, opportunities abound for those interested in visual approaches to engagement and research. This article explores the potential of a participatory action technique known as photovoice in congregational settings through a case study of a church located in the midwestern region of the United States. P…
From Sanctuary to Skatepark
Roman R. Williams and Taylor E. Hartson on exploring the adaptive reuse of buildings
Interfaith photovoice
Religion is highly visible in the daily activities of Canadians yet the visibility of religious diversity has become a source of tension and conflict. The Interfaith Photovoice (IFPV) Initiative harnesses the visibility of religion and uses the photovoice process to strengthen relationships between Muslims and Christians, bridge cultural divides, encourage mutual advocacy, and engage communities around questions of faith and religious diversity. …
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